The Kurdish languages constitute a dialect continuum spoken
by Kurds in Kurdistan and the diaspora. The three Kurdish languages are
Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish), Sorani (Central Kurdish), and Southern Kurdish (Palewani or Xwarig/Xwarîn).
Kurdish is spoken by 20-30 million people.
Conjugate a Kurdish verb
Recently Conjugated Kurdish verbs
birin,
bi dar ve kirin,
şe kirin,
firotin,
spî kirin,
alandin,
hûr kirin,
winda kirin,
kedî kirin,
damezrandin,
bilind kirin,
hêsan kirin,
diyar kirin,
nizm kirin,
hêvotin,
dabilandin,
winda kirin,
rizgar kirin,
jê kirin,
qedandin,
mîz kirin,
asteng kirin,
qetandin,
vekirin,
erê kirin,
agahdar kirin,
pirs kirin,
nû kirin,
bi dar ve kirin,
paqij kirin,
dia kirin,
dest pê kirin,
nerm kirin,
dirêj kirin,
dabilandin,
kirîn,
bêrî kirin,
tomar kirin,
li xwe kirin,
lê zêde kirin,
kirin,
kuştin,
asteng kirin,
alîkarî kirin,
pirs kirin,
paqij kirin,
paqij kirin,
tijî kirin,
dabilandin,
pîroz kirin,
Kurdish verbs have the following features:
- Verbs have two stems: present and past.
- Present stems can be simple or secondary.
- Simple tenses are formed by the addition of personal endings to the two stems.
- Secondary stems consist of a root + suffixes that indicate transitivity, intransitivity, and causativity.
- There are 3 tenses: present, past, and future.
- There are 2 voices: active and passive.
- There are 2 aspects: imperfective and perfective. Aspect is as important as tense.
- There are 4 moods: indicative, conditional, imperative, and potential.
- Past tense transitive sentences are formed as ergative constructions, i.e., transitive verbs in the past tense agree with the object rather than the subject of the sentence.