Kurdish grammar

Kurdish grammar has many inflections, with prefixes and suffixes added to roots to express grammatical relations and to form words.

Among all modern Iranian languages, only Yaghnobi and Kurdish are ergative, with respect to both case-marking and verb-agreement.

In this phrase, the word 'of' is being represented by the Ezafe construction 'ی/î' attached to the noun 'پیاو/piyaw'.

If a past transitive verb accepts a nominative personal suffix, it agrees with the object of the sentence.

Among all modern Iranian languages, only Yaghnobi and Kurdish are ergative, with respect to both case-marking and verb-agreement.

[6] jēgā-y min = my place (Lit: place of me) Because the stress is distinctive in Kurdish, the acute diacritics (á) are used to denote the stressed syllables (normally not used in Kurdish) (Thackston 2006a).