Talk:Kurdish grammar

merged from Kurmanji grammar

There was a separate Kurmanji grammar article that was identical to this with the exception of the following additional material:

===Reflexive===

The reflexive pronoun is xwe.

==Adjectives==

In Kurmanji, adjectives are not inflected according to the nouns they modify.

The suffix -tir is added to an adjective to form the comparative, and -tirîn to form superlative form.

==Verbs==
===Tense===

There are three main Tenses of the verb: the Present, the Past, the Future; as,

Ez nanê di xwum (Present)

I eat the meal

Min nan xuard (Past)

I ate the meal

Ezê nan xum(Future)

I shall eat the meal

The tense also shows the 'state' of the action referred to, whether the action is, was or still going on (continuous).

Ezê nanê di xwum (Present continuous)

I am eating the meal

Min nan di xuard (Past continuous)

I was eating the meal

Min nanê xwardi (Presnt perfect)

I have eaten the meal

Min nan xwardi (Past perfect)

I had eaten the meal

Simple tenses

(1) Present simple tense : I go = Ez di çim
(2) Past simple tense : I went = Ez çum
(3) Future simple tense : I shall go = Ez dê çim
(4) Future simple in the past : I should go = Ez dê bi çim

Continuous tenses

(5) Present continuous tense : I am going = Ezê di çim
(6) Past continuous tense : I was going = Ez di çum
(7) Future continuous tense : I shall be going = Ezê dê çim
(8) Future continuous in the past  : I should be going = Ezê dê bi çim

Perfect tenses

(9) Present perfect tense : I have gone = Ezê çuoym
(10) Past perfect tense : I had gone =  Ez çuoym
(11) Future perfect tense : I shall be going = Ezê dê çuoy bim
(12) Future perfect in the past : I should be going = Ezê dê bi çim
(13) Pluperfect tense : Ez çuo buom --- There is no English equivalent.
 The time of the action is before the Past Perfect.
(14) Past Pluperfect tense : Ez çuoy --- There is no English equivalent.
 The time of the action is before the time of Pluperfect.

Imperfect tenses

Present imperfect tense

There is no equivalent in English. It denotes that the action has just been started or has been decided on to start.

e.g. Ezê çuom

Past imperfect tense

There is no English equivalent. It denotes indefinite past. It is different from any other past tense (simple, perfect, etc.)

e.g. Ezê çuoy

Ergative construction

The article refers in passing to the presence of the ergative construction in the language, but fails to define it or to explain its usage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.114.49 (talk) 22:20, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

HOURS OF WORK DELETED

My works of hours keeps deleting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rojan98 (talk • contribs) 13:46, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Now I can't even undo because he did undo for stopping me. I had tons of resources/citations.

• Rojan98, you need to stop edit warring. Content must be properly verified. If you remove that tag again, I will block you. User:Semsûrî, please explain the problems on the talk page. Drmies (talk) 14:12, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Rojan98, You have also added information without references and information with references like this "< ref name=":2">Zazaca</ref >". Wikipedia cannot be used as a source. If there are portions that are reliably references, I will re-add them but large parts of the information is not sourced well. --Semsurî (talk) 14:13, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Drmies. I am new to wikipedia so I am still learning.

Semsûrî: Why don't you ask for proper sources instead of deleting 9000 bytes and hours of work and contribution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rojan98 (talk • contribs) 14:17, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

You are welcome to re-add information if they are well referenced. I did state that it was removed because of the sourcing. --Semsurî (talk) 14:21, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

One example is that you deleted my work with preposition and postposition (which did'nt have source in the beginning) and re-replaced it with a lower quality table where sorani and kurmanji prepositions and postpositions were written together, also without source. Instead of wanting proper source you just deleteded 9000 bytes.

To be honest it seem more likely that you want to hide dialectal differences amoung kurds for the sake of your ideology.--Rojan98 (talk) 14:30, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

How can I source varieties of kurmanji which are undocumented and has no litterature? They are obvious present and someone who speaks kurmanji will notice that if a hear an central anatolian, kurds from west of euphrates rives and kurds from khorasan. Please revert the 9000 bytes and hours of work I did and want sources in proper way. --Rojan98 (talk) 14:43, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Sigh... I'll keep removing your edits if you don't add published sources. --Semsurî (talk) 15:24, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

I have proper source here which I could easly use: https://www.academia.edu/9265566/Regional_variation_in_Kurmanji_A_preliminary_classification_of_dialects

I now very well that you are from the same region of me and that you speak same dialect as me (if you really know kurdish) but deleted hours of work of 9000 bytes because you your own POV and agenda. Please revert what you have vandalized and deleted --Rojan98 (talk) 15:37, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

• Rojan98, you're new, and you're trying to improve an article. That's great, and we appreciate it. However, there are a few things you must know.

  a. What Semsuri did was NOT vandalism: please don't use that term again for their edits, or similar edits, or you may be blocked for not assuming good faith. BTW, this talk of some supposed POV falls under the same category: it is really a personal attack. I did you a favor and overwrote another set of personal attacks of yours.

  b. It is the responsibility of the person adding material to provide the sourcing. This should be obvious, just as it should be obvious that you cannot expect someone else to provide sources for your material. Their grammar book may have different examples. Their grammar book may disagree with yours. Etc. Your edit, your sources. And seriously, if YOU have the source and you tell THEM to use it, you're getting something wrong.

  c. Please read WP:RS. That link is to academia.edu, which is NOT a peer-reviewed outlet. There is NO guarantee that something on academia.edu is reliable. Now, in this case it appears the paper was indeed published by a journal and then uploaded to academia.edu, so I think this is acceptable. But the fact remains: it is up to you to verify the information in the right way, in the right places. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 16:09, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Dear Drmis:

What about the things that are written allready? The tables that are posted are neither professional and also don't have any source but simply written. Does that mean that is should be deleted because I need source? Some of the tables that were written are actually highy inaccurate actually no scholar does say that. --Rojan98 (talk) 16:17, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

• Then correct it, using proper sourcing. If content is incorrect or whatever, change it or remove it. Drmies (talk) 16:59, 21 October 2019 (UTC)