Lesson 4
Nouns- Gender
Grammar
In Pashto the common gender is also sometimes modified as: doctor- doctora, teacher- teachara.
All the inanimate things are either feminine or masculine. Other parts of the speech/sentence, especially helping verbs, often agree with gender as:
sarhay day, but khaza/shaza da,
maz day but kursai da,
kitab day but kapee(notebook) da,
khaza raghla (came) but sarhay raghay,
kursai kha/sha da (chair is good) but mez kha day
Vocabulary
Numbers- hindsay
1 -yaw
2 -dwa
3 -drey
4 -salor
5 -pinza
6 -shpag/j
7 -owa
8 -ata
9 -naha
10 -las
Communication-
These are two men. Da dwa sarhee dee.
These are three women. Da dray khazay dee.
General-
We see above that for sarhee we use dee plural and for is we have da and day.
**Please note that most of Pashtoons use urdu numbers in Pakistan but not in Afghanistan.
Grammar
In Pashto the common gender is also sometimes modified as: doctor- doctora, teacher- teachara.
All the inanimate things are either feminine or masculine. Other parts of the speech/sentence, especially helping verbs, often agree with gender as:
sarhay day, but khaza/shaza da,
maz day but kursai da,
kitab day but kapee(notebook) da,
khaza raghla (came) but sarhay raghay,
kursai kha/sha da (chair is good) but mez kha day
Vocabulary
Numbers- hindsay
1 -yaw
2 -dwa
3 -drey
4 -salor
5 -pinza
6 -shpag/j
7 -owa
8 -ata
9 -naha
10 -las
Communication-
These are two men. Da dwa sarhee dee.
These are three women. Da dray khazay dee.
General-
We see above that for sarhee we use dee plural and for is we have da and day.
**Please note that most of Pashtoons use urdu numbers in Pakistan but not in Afghanistan.