Kurmancî
YOUR FIRST CHAPTERBeginner to intermediate

A new language starts here.

Discover Kurmanji, one small lesson at a time.

ROJ BAŞ! · HELLO!

Let’s start with the basics.

A few letters today.
Your first sentences tomorrow.

PEYV BI PEYV

A new world of 2,000 words

Four levels from easy to difficult. 500 words in each, with English and Turkish meanings.

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Ready to go deeper?

Pronouns, xwe, relative clauses, Divêtî, Fermanî, Hekanî, Bilanî, Daçek, active and passive voice; oblique noun endings, conjunctions and numbers up to 1000. Then study adjectives and four past forms in depth: têdeyî, dûdar, berdest and çîroka têdeyî. Explained lessons and applied workshops.

Your learning path

22 units · 43 lessons
01
THE FOUNDATIONS

First words, first connections

Get comfortable with the alphabet and the people in a sentence.

02
BUILDING BLOCKS

Make your first sentences

Say who you are, describe things, and learn to say “not”.

03
EVERYDAY KURMANJI

Bring your words to life

Connect people with things and talk about everyday actions.

04
GRAMMAR IN ACTION

Grow your sentences

Ask questions, say where something is, and talk about more than one thing.

05
VERB TENSES

Talk about time

Say what you do now, what you do not do, and what you will do tomorrow.

06
PAST TENSE

Look back

Say where you went, who came, and what did not happen.

07
ERGATIVE PAST

Who did what

Learn the special past-tense pattern for verbs with an object.

08
LIFE & HOME

Family and home

Talk about people close to you and everyday spaces.

09
COLORS & MARKET

Colors and the market

Describe things and shop for food and daily needs.

10
INTERMEDIATE · PRONOUNS

Follow the roles in a sentence

Move beyond basic sentences with oblique pronouns and reflexive possession.

11
INTERMEDIATE · COMPLEX SENTENCES

Connect your ideas

Express wishes and ability, then describe people with relative clauses.

12
INTERMEDIATE · MOODS

Raweyên lêkerê · Verb moods

Express necessity, give instructions, build possible conditions and make suggestions with bila.

13
INTERMEDIATE · ADPOSITIONS

Daçek · Connecting words

Describe location, source, tools and company with common adpositions.

14
INTERMEDIATE · VOICE

Avanîya lêkerê · Active and passive

Follow who acts and who is affected, then change the voice.

15
INTERMEDIATE · NOUN ENDINGS

Tewang · Noun cases

Read noun endings through their role, gender and number.

16
INTERMEDIATE · CONJUNCTIONS

Gihanek · Connect your sentences

Express addition, alternatives, contrast, reasons, time, conditions and purpose.

17
INTERMEDIATE · NUMBERS

Hejmar · Beyond ten

Build teens, tens, hundreds and a thousand from number words.

18
INTERMEDIATE · ADJECTIVES

Rengdêr · Adjectives in depth

Describe qualities, expand noun phrases and compare people and things.

19
INTERMEDIATE · SIMPLE PAST

Dema borîya têdeyî · Simple past

Tell completed events with affirmative, negative and ergative patterns.

20
INTERMEDIATE · PERFECT

Dema borîya dûdar · Perfect

Connect past events to the present or the topic at hand.

21
INTERMEDIATE · ONGOING PAST

Dema borîya berdest · Ongoing past

Describe past activities in progress and repeated past habits.

22
INTERMEDIATE · PAST PERFECT

Çîroka dema borîya têdeyî · Past perfect

Place one past event before another and compare the four past forms.