Question words:
key - when
kam - who
se - what
--- se biyo? - what happened?
Deictic pronouns:
no (m.)/na (f.) - (nominative case) this
ni (m.) - (oblique case) this
Adverbs:
nika - now
Postpositions:
re -- dative or directional
--- Nika ma re se biyo? - Now what happened to us?
ver -- because of
--- ez merdo ni derdu ver - I died because of this problem
Verbs:
merdo - I died
mando/mendo - I came
şiyo - I went
kerd - he does. Used as auxiliary in a lot of compound verbs.
--- nas kerd - he knows
--- sas kerd - he confuses, mistakes
Words for mother and father:
nominative: mo and pi (as in Persian)
vocative: daye and bavo (as in Kurmanji)
Sound changes, Zazaki -> Kurmanji
z -> j
roz - roj (day)