Apê me ye - Babê me ye - dil û cergê me ye!

[Egid]

Apo-uncle on fathers side
Xalo-uncle on mothers side

[Diri]

PS - Chichalok - PLEASE have a look at the site that Heval wanted you to learn Kurdish from...

This wasn't HARD at all - I speak so to say, the same Kurdish as YOU do - and this is standard Kurmancî...

what is APE .. i call uncle "mam" not ape ... ??

It isn't "ape" - it is "ap" - and it is a Northern Kurdish expression...

Other words you may or may not use:

"Mam" û "Ap" = uncle on fathers side...

"Xal" = uncle on mothers side...

"Met" = aunt on fathers side...

"Xaltîk" û "Xaltê" = aunt on mothers side...

"Pismam"/"Kurmam" = uncles son on fathers side...

"Dotmam"/"Kichmam" = uncles daughter on fathers side...

"Kurxal" = uncles son on mothers side...

"Kichxal" = uncles daughter on mothers side...

"Birazî" = "nephew" for the fathers brother/sister...

"Xarzî" = nephew for the mothers brother/sister...

well i call my dad's brother ... mam

my mom's brother .. xal

That is the same as that which I highlighted in red...


@Egid

The suffix "o" is typical Kurdish... "Ap" is uncle - but when speaking we tend to give words an "o" or "ê" ending/suffix - makes it more personal and cosy... While for others, it is just a "natural" part of their way of speaking...

[ChiChalok]

PS - Chichalok - PLEASE have a look at the site that Heval wanted you to learn Kurdish from...

This wasn't HARD at all - I speak so to say, the same Kurdish as YOU do - and this is standard Kurmancî...

what is APE .. i call uncle "mam" not ape ... ??

It isn't "ape" - it is "ap" - and it is a Northern Kurdish expression...

Other words you may or may not use:

"Mam" û "Ap" = uncle on fathers side...

"Xal" = uncle on mothers side...

"Met" = aunt on fathers side...

"Xaltîk" û "Xaltê" = aunt on mothers side...

"Pismam"/"Kurmam" = uncles son on fathers side...

"Dotmam"/"Kichmam" = uncles daughter on fathers side...

"Kurxal" = uncles son on mothers side...

"Kichxal" = uncles daughter on mothers side...

"Birazî" = "nephew" for the fathers brother/sister...

"Xarzî" = nephew for the mothers brother/sister...

well i call my dad's brother ... mam

my mom's brother .. xal

That is the same as that which I highlighted in red...


@Egid

The suffix "o" is typical Kurdish... "Ap" is uncle - but when speaking we tend to give words an "o" or "ê" ending/suffix - makes it more personal and cosy... While for others, it is just a "natural" part of their way of speaking...

ape sounds like the animal ape .. these words confuse me u spelled it ape first and now ur saying "ap" so which one?

[cheryl]

ape sounds like the animal ape .. these words confuse me u spelled it ape first and now ur saying "ap" so which one?

ezafet, ChiChalok, ezafet.

"ap" is the word by itself. it takes -ê ending in "apê me" to make the noun phrase "our uncle." -ê ending means that the noun is definite, singular and masculine. without the ending, you can't qualify the noun with possessive pronouns or adjectives.

i guess you would say "apekê me" to say "an uncle of ours," but i will let Dîrî or heval correct me on that if i'm wrong.

also, i think that "ap" is more bakurî usage, although baran rizgar carries both "ap" and "lal" for "paternal uncle."

[Diri]

PS - Chichalok - PLEASE have a look at the site that Heval wanted you to learn Kurdish from...

This wasn't HARD at all - I speak so to say, the same Kurdish as YOU do - and this is standard Kurmancî...

what is APE .. i call uncle "mam" not ape ... ??

It isn't "ape" - it is "ap" - and it is a Northern Kurdish expression...

Other words you may or may not use:

"Mam" û "Ap" = uncle on fathers side...

"Xal" = uncle on mothers side...

"Met" = aunt on fathers side...

"Xaltîk" û "Xaltê" = aunt on mothers side...

"Pismam"/"Kurmam" = uncles son on fathers side...

"Dotmam"/"Kichmam" = uncles daughter on fathers side...

"Kurxal" = uncles son on mothers side...

"Kichxal" = uncles daughter on mothers side...

"Birazî" = "nephew" for the fathers brother/sister...

"Xarzî" = nephew for the mothers brother/sister...

well i call my dad's brother ... mam

my mom's brother .. xal

That is the same as that which I highlighted in red...


@Egid

The suffix "o" is typical Kurdish... "Ap" is uncle - but when speaking we tend to give words an "o" or "ê" ending/suffix - makes it more personal and cosy... While for others, it is just a "natural" part of their way of speaking...

ape sounds like the animal ape .. these words confuse me u spelled it ape first and now ur saying "ap" so which one?

VERY GOOD CHERYL... That was a VERY impressive explanation... You, gramatically speaking, know what Kurdish is...


Chichalok - listen to what Cheryl says... That is SPOT ON...

By the way Chichalok - you must first learn one thing before you can learn to write/read in Kurdish Latin script - the sounds aren't pronounced like in English, Afghani or Vitnamese... They are Kurdish sounds - you should have a look at the Kurdish section of KBU and read what the sounds are like...

[ChiChalok]

PS - Chichalok - PLEASE have a look at the site that Heval wanted you to learn Kurdish from...

This wasn't HARD at all - I speak so to say, the same Kurdish as YOU do - and this is standard Kurmancî...

what is APE .. i call uncle "mam" not ape ... ??

It isn't "ape" - it is "ap" - and it is a Northern Kurdish expression...

Other words you may or may not use:

"Mam" û "Ap" = uncle on fathers side...

"Xal" = uncle on mothers side...

"Met" = aunt on fathers side...

"Xaltîk" û "Xaltê" = aunt on mothers side...

"Pismam"/"Kurmam" = uncles son on fathers side...

"Dotmam"/"Kichmam" = uncles daughter on fathers side...

"Kurxal" = uncles son on mothers side...

"Kichxal" = uncles daughter on mothers side...

"Birazî" = "nephew" for the fathers brother/sister...

"Xarzî" = nephew for the mothers brother/sister...

well i call my dad's brother ... mam

my mom's brother .. xal

That is the same as that which I highlighted in red...


@Egid

The suffix "o" is typical Kurdish... "Ap" is uncle - but when speaking we tend to give words an "o" or "ê" ending/suffix - makes it more personal and cosy... While for others, it is just a "natural" part of their way of speaking...

ape sounds like the animal ape .. these words confuse me u spelled it ape first and now ur saying "ap" so which one?

VERY GOOD CHERYL... That was a VERY impressive explanation... You, gramatically speaking, know what Kurdish is...


Chichalok - listen to what Cheryl says... That is SPOT ON...

By the way Chichalok - you must first learn one thing before you can learn to write/read in Kurdish Latin script - the sounds aren't pronounced like in English, Afghani or Vitnamese... They are Kurdish sounds - you should have a look at the Kurdish section of KBU and read what the sounds are like...

ahem .. okie

[Diri]

No hard feelings of course...

Just want our Kurdish sisters to be SERFIRAZ...

[ChiChalok]

naaa its okie =) ahem yes i wana be serfaraz ..

[cheryl]

it will be so easy for you ChiChalok.

you already know kurdish. you already know the english alphabet and the latinî alphabet is scarcely different from english.

you know the vocabulary and the grammar. . . the alphabet will be a breeze!

and now i'm going to post an ezafet question in the language section (hint, hint, Dîrî )

[Mosul]

latin kurdi is useless, i hate it, were kurds, not turks.

diri are you bahdeeni? im bahdeeni and i cant understand much of what you say.

[Piling]

And sorani is written in arabo-persian alphabet, is it better ?

Latin Kurdish alphabet has been created by Kurdish intellectuals, not Turks.

[cheryl]

touché, Piling.

this is the comment of someone who doesn't know latinî and doesn't want to know.

the implication that turks created the latinî alphabet is ridiculous in light of the fact that kurdish language was officially forbidden for so long, and still is under certain circumstances.

[ChiChalok]

latin kurdi is useless, i hate it, were kurds, not turks.

diri are you bahdeeni? im bahdeeni and i cant understand much of what you say.

why is ur nick name mousl ?? ( just wondering)

[ChiChalok]

it will be so easy for you ChiChalok.

you already know kurdish. you already know the english alphabet and the latinî alphabet is scarcely different from english.

you know the vocabulary and the grammar. . . the alphabet will be a breeze!

and now i'm going to post an ezafet question in the language section (hint, hint, Dîrî )

ya it should be easy i think

[Diri]

latin kurdi is useless, i hate it, were kurds, not turks.

diri are you bahdeeni? im bahdeeni and i cant understand much of what you say.

It is useless? Then what the hell is Arabic script? By the WAY - LATIN SCRIPT is something used by HALF THE WORLD - ARABIC SCRIPT is used by ARABS AND PERSIANS... AND ONLY THEM...

I am from ÛRMÎ - that is NOT Behdînan... My area is called Colemêrg, in Kurdish... And for YOU who does NOT understand "latinî Kurdish" it is read "Jolemerg"...

PS - the reason you don't understand what I say is that you are a 13 year old with no written Latin Kurdish education...