lesson no 6
nouns gender
grammar.
in pushtu the common gender is also some times modified as doctor<doctora, teacher <teachara.
all the inanimate things are either feminine or masculine . other parts of the speach/sentence especially helping verbs often agree with gender as sarhay day, but khaza /shaza da . maiz day but kursai da , kitab day but kapee<notebook< da. khaza raghla<came< but sarhay raghey. kursai kha/sha da <chair is good< but maiz kha dey.
vocabulary.
numbers<hindsay< Shmara>
1 > yaw
2 > dwa
3 > drey
4 > saloor
5 > pinzah
6 > shpag
7 > uowah
8 > atah
9 > naha
10 > lass
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..are<for is we have da and dey
please also note that most of pushtuns unfortunately use urdu numbers in pakistan but not in afghanistan