Kurdish Phrase · Greetings
What Is Your Name in Kurdish
Answer
Navê te çi ye?
(What is your name?)
To ask "what is your name?" in Kurmanji Kurdish, say Navê te çi ye? (to one person). To answer, say Navê min … e ("My name is …").
Formal, informal & dialect variants
| When to use | Kurdish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Informal — to one person | Navê te çi ye? | What is your name? |
| Formal / pluralte → we | Navê we çi ye? | What is your name? (formal/plural) |
| Answer | Navê min … e | My name is … |
Word-by-word breakdown
Nav = "name". The little -ê on navê links "name" to its owner (this is the *ezafe* construction). te = "your" (singular), çi = "what", and ye = "is". So Navê te çi ye? is literally "Name-of you what is?".
To give your own name, replace te with min ("my"): Navê min Ferhat e = "My name is Ferhat".
Frequently asked questions
How do you ask someone's name in Kurdish?
Say "Navê te çi ye?" to one person, or "Navê we çi ye?" formally / to a group.
How do you say "My name is…" in Kurdish?
Say "Navê min … e", inserting your name, e.g. "Navê min Sara ye".
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