Sorani grammar
Sorani is a Central Kurdish dialect. Sorani Kurdish is written with the Arabic alphabet, it has 8 vowels:î[i], û[u], i[I], u[ʊ], e[e], o[o], a[æ], â[ɑ].
Nouns
A Kurdish noun in the absolute state, i.e. without any ending of any kind, gives a generic sense of the noun. It is also the “lexical” form of the noun, i.e. the form in which a noun is given in a vocabulary list or dictionary. The absolute state is normally used for the generic sense, as in "قاوه ڕەشه" qâwa rasha(coffee is black).[1]
Verb
Tense
The main tenses
- Min nan dexom (Present)
- "I am eating the meal"
- Min nanim xward (Past)
- "I ate the meal"
- Past Perfect Tense (Intransitive)
For intransitive verbs with past stems ending in a consonant (like hatin > hat-), the past perfect tense,which is functionally equivalent to the English past perfect (‘I had come, you had gone’), is formed from the past stem + i + the past tense of bûn ‘to be.’ Verbs with past stems ending in a vowel (like bûn > bû) form the past perfect tense from the simple stem + the past tense of bûn.
- hâtibûm You came for me
- hâtibûyan You came for them
- hâtibûy(t) You came for him/her
References
- ↑ Sorani Kurdish. "A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings" (PDF). Fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- Thackston, W. M. Sorani Kurdish— A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings