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Mixed review
Choose a unit or mix all topics. Revisit missed questions at the end.
Meet the alphabet
Recognize the letters that make Kurmanji distinctive.
Start practicingLESSON 2 · 8 QUESTIONSI, you, and everyone else
Choose a subject pronoun for each person.
Start practicingLESSON 3 · 8 QUESTIONSThe little words for “to be”
Build a simple sentence with “am”, “is”, or “are”.
Start practicingLESSON 4 · 8 QUESTIONSA small word that changes things
Say that someone or something is not a certain way.
Start practicingLESSON 5 · 8 QUESTIONSMy book, your world
Recognize simple possessive phrases with the ezafe link.
Start practicingLESSON 6 · 8 QUESTIONSThings you do every day
Use xwendin (to read / study) in the present tense.
Start practicingLESSON 7 · 8 QUESTIONSCounting to ten
Count from one to ten in Kurmanji.
Start practicingLESSON 8 · 8 QUESTIONSSaying hello and goodbye
Greet someone, ask how they are, and say goodbye.
Start practicingLESSON 9 · 8 QUESTIONSAsking questions
Ask basic questions using kî, çi, and li ku.
Start practicingLESSON 10 · 8 QUESTIONSHere, there, and where
Say where someone is using li vir, li wir, and li ku.
Start practicingLESSON 11 · 8 QUESTIONSMore than one
Use the ezafe to say “my books” or “your hands”.
Start practicingLESSON 12 · 8 QUESTIONSMore things you do
Form the present tense of xwarin and nivîsandin, and say that you do not do something.
Start practicingLESSON 13 · 8 QUESTIONSThings you will do
Build simple future sentences with dê and the verb.
Start practicingLESSON 14 · 8 QUESTIONSThings you will not do
Make a future sentence negative and choose between the present and the future.
Start practicingLESSON 15 · 8 QUESTIONSThings that happened
Use çûn (to go) and hatin (to come) in the simple past.
Start practicingLESSON 16 · 8 QUESTIONSThings that did not happen
Make a past sentence negative and tell the present, past, and future apart.
Start practicingLESSON 17 · 8 QUESTIONSWho did it?
Use min, te, wî, wê, me, we, and wan as the doer of a past-tense verb with an object.
Start practicingLESSON 18 · 8 QUESTIONSDoer and object
Say who did what to whom, and make the verb agree with the object.
Start practicingLESSON 19 · 8 QUESTIONSMeet the family
Talk about family members using the possessive ezafe.
Start practicingLESSON 20 · 8 QUESTIONSAt home
Describe things at home using li malê and everyday objects.
Start practicingLESSON 21 · 8 QUESTIONSA world of color
Use colors and adjectives to describe objects.
Start practicingLESSON 22 · 8 QUESTIONSAt the market
Ask how much something is and say what you want.
Start practicingLESSON 23 · 8 QUESTIONSOne person, different pronoun forms
Choose direct and oblique pronouns by their role and the tense.
Start practicingLESSON 24 · 8 QUESTIONSWhose book? Your own.
Distinguish a subject’s own possessions from someone else’s.
Start practicingLESSON 25 · 8 QUESTIONSI want to… I can…
Use present subjunctive forms after wanting and ability.
Start practicingLESSON 26 · 8 QUESTIONSThe person who…
Build simple subject relative clauses with an ezafe link and ku.
Start practicingLESSON 27 · 8 QUESTIONSDivêtî · What needs to happen
Build necessity statements with divê and distinguish negative action from lack of necessity.
Start practicingLESSON 28 · 8 QUESTIONSFermanî · Instructions and requests
Form affirmative and negative commands and recognize irregular were / werin.
Start practicingLESSON 29 · 8 QUESTIONSHekanî · If this happens…
Build open present/future conditions with heke and a subjunctive verb.
Start practicingLESSON 30 · 8 QUESTIONSBilanî · Let someone act
Build simple bila clauses and distinguish them from commands and necessity.
Start practicingLESSON 31 · 8 QUESTIONSDaçek · Place, source and company
Choose common adpositions, keep both halves of circumpositions and use oblique complements.
Start practicingLESSON 32 · 8 QUESTIONSAvanîya lebatî · Active voice
Recognize active clauses and keep present agreement separate from past ergative agreement.
Start practicingLESSON 33 · 8 QUESTIONSAvanîya tebatî · Passive voice
Build present, past and negative passives with hatin and an infinitive.
Start practicingLESSON 34 · 8 QUESTIONSQertafên tewangê · Noun endings
Recognize when a noun is oblique, form common endings and distinguish them from ezafe.
Start practicingLESSON 35 · 8 QUESTIONSGihanek · Joining ideas
Choose a conjunction by meaning and keep the verb form appropriate to each clause.
Start practicingLESSON 36 · 8 QUESTIONSHejmar · From eleven to a thousand
Read and write numbers from 11 to 1000, joining their parts with û.
Start practicingLESSON 37 · 8 QUESTIONSRengdêr · Describe people and things
Use common adjectives in noun phrases and predicates, with the correct ezafe and copula.
Start practicingLESSON 38 · 8 QUESTIONSRengdêr · Add detail and ownership
Attach an adjective to a possessed noun and combine descriptions without changing the head noun.
Start practicingLESSON 39 · 8 QUESTIONSRengdêr · Compare qualities
Build comparative sentences and recognize -tirîn and herî constructions.
Start practicingLESSON 40 · 8 QUESTIONSBorîya têdeyî · Completed past events
Tell a short past sequence and distinguish subject agreement from ergative object agreement.
Start practicingLESSON 41 · 8 QUESTIONSBorîya dûdar · Past with present relevance
Form affirmative and negative perfect forms and preserve ergative agreement with transitive verbs.
Start practicingLESSON 42 · 8 QUESTIONSBorîya berdest · Ongoing and habitual past
Use di- with past stems and distinguish ongoing background from completed events.
Start practicingLESSON 43 · 8 QUESTIONSÇîroka borîya têdeyî · An earlier past
Build the past perfect with bû and locate an event before another past reference point.
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