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Pashto verbs are of four categories: simple verbs, prefixed verbs, a-initial verbs and compound verbs. Prefixed verbs, a-initial verbs and compound verbs are separable. Pashto verbs can be conjugated by the bases they have. Present and imperative forms are formed on present bases. Past, optative, and infinitive forms are formed on past bases.
Pashto syllable structure can be summarized as follows; parentheses enclose optional components: (C 1 C 2 (C 3)) (S 1) V (S 2) (C 4 (C 5)); Pashto syllable structure consists of an optional syllable onset, consisting of one or two consonants; an obligatory syllable nucleus, consisting of a vowel optionally preceded by and/or followed by a semivowel; and an optional syllable coda, consisting of ...
In 1936 a royal decree of Zahir Shah formally granted Pashto the status of an official language, [42] with full rights to use in all aspects of government and education – despite the fact that the ethnically Pashtun royal family and bureaucrats mostly spoke Persian. [38] Thus Pashto became a national language, a symbol for Pashtun nationalism.
According to Encyclopædia Iranica Waṇetsi branched off from the other Pashto dialects in the Middle Iranian stage: [7]. Some of Waṇetsi's particularities (e.g. šwī “twenty,” mōš “we,” [a]γa “of;” the pres. endings; retention of rž; loss of -t-) prove that it must have split off from Paṣ̌to at an early Middle Iranic stage, considerably before the constitution of a ...
Pashto is categorized as an Eastern Iranian language, [251] but a remarkably large number of words are unique to Pashto. [ 252 ] [ 253 ] Pashto morphology in relation to verbs is complex compared to other Iranian languages. [ 254 ]
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At the end of verbs it is used to form verbal participle in the masculine. ^2 If ۍ ends a word it always indicates that the word it occurs in is feminine. ^3 If ئ occurs at the end of a verb, it indicates the verb is in second person plural form. ^4 If ې appears at end of nouns and adjectives it indicates that those are feminine.
Pashto names for the months of the Solar Hijri calendar (12 P) Pashtun names (1 C) Pages in category "Pashto words and phrases" The following 6 pages are in this ...