In the negative past the clitic follows نە.

ckb.verb.negation-clitic · Error · Agreement

The clitic of a transitive verb moves onto the first part of the word: نەمخوارد, "I did not eat".

Examples

Wrong	Right
نەخواردم	نەمخوارد
نەکڕیمان	نەمانکڕی

Lessons

• Lesson 14: The past tense II: transitive verbs and ergativity
• Lesson 22: Clitic placement and ergative syntax in depth

Related rules

• The agent is marked twice.
• In the written standard the clitic goes on the object, not the verb.
• The agent's clitic is missing from the object.
• An intransitive verb takes a verb ending, not a clitic.
• This verb is irregular here.