Description

You want to learn Zazakî (Dimilkî, Kirmanckî, Kirdkî)? Kurdish Grammar makes it quite simple for you. It is directed at anyone who would like to learn the Zazakî language – whether as a holiday-goer, culture- or language enthusiast, partner, student, or employee. The overview tables for grammar and important verbs help to learn quickly and easily – with or without prior knowledge. This in addition to conjugation formulas and many examples gives you the opportunity to actively learn Zazakî and spare you from longwinded, boring explanatory texts! You can use this book as a resource for the first steps and whenever you get stuck.

I would like to express my special thanks to Hasan Aslan for his continuous support in the preparation of this book. I would also like to thank Bîlal Zîlan for his contribution.

CONTENTS
Peculiarities of the Kurdish Language
The Kurdish Alphabet
THE PRONOUNS
Personal pronouns
Possessive pronouns
Interrogative pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
The Reciprocal Pronoun
The Reflexive Pronoun
The Diminutive Affixes
Declension of Nouns
The Verb „to be“ in the Present Tense
The Verb „to be“ in the Past Tense
THE PRESENT TENSES
The Simple Present Tense
The Present Progressive
The Imperative
The modal verbs
The conjugation with the modal verbs
Estbîyene / Çinbîyene
The Futuristic Present Tense
THE PAST TENSES
The Simple Past Tense
Ergativity
The Past Progressive Tense
The Pluperfect Tense
FUTURE TENSE
Simple Future Tense
THE SUBJUNCTIVE
The Subjunctive (in the Present Tense)
The Subjunctive (in the Past Tense)
The Subjunctive with “wa”
PASSIVE VOICE
In the Present Tense
In the Past Tense
In the Past Progressive Tense
In the Pluperfect Tense
In the Future Tense
THE CAUSATIVE FORM
In the Present Tense
In the Future Tense
The Causative in the Irrealis Form
In the Past Tense
In the Pluperfect Tense
In the Past Progressive Tense
THE ADVERBS
1. The Most Common Temporal Adverbs
2. The Most Common Modal Adverbs
3. The Most Common Local Adverbs
PREPOSITION AND CIRCUMPOSITION
THE ADJECTIVES
1. Adjective as a Modifier
2. Adjective as an Adverb
3. Adjective as a Predicate with “to be”
4. Formation of the Adjectives from Nouns
5. Formation of Adjectives from Verbs (Participle)
6. Substantiation of adjectives
7. Comparative
CONJUNCTIONS AND SUBORDINATE CLAUSES
Conjunctions in Zazakî
Subordinate Clauses
STRUCTURE OF THE KURDISH VERBS
The Simple Verbs.
The Separable Compound Verbs
The Separable Verbs
NUMBERS
Cardinal, Ordinal Numbers & Fractions
Writing of the date
VERB STEMS
Abbreviations