I want to talk about how verbs function in Zazaki. Let's choose a verb and apply the paradigm!

şiyen means "to go". There are basically three verbal stems in Zazaki; past, non-past, and subjunctive. We will start declining the verb in the non-past stem.
The present root of the verb şiyen is şon-. And the declension will be;
As you can see, the verb declines according to gender too! This is due to the reason that Zazaki's non-past stem is actually the Middle Iranian present participle, and this gives the language a rather cool feature among the other Iranian languages.
Let's see the past stem now. The infinitive is built on the past stem with the suffix -(y)en, so we can get the root şi- out of this.
Again, the past stem in Zazaki (and in Iranian languages general) is actually the old past participle, and this is the reason for the split-ergativity observed in some of the Iranian languages.

How about declining a transitive verb to see how ergativity works?
The verb kerden means to do, and its past and non-past stems are respectively kerd- and ken-.
As you can see, in the past tense the verb didn't change at all, while the subject is indicated with oblique pronouns, instead of direct ones.

In order to see the declension in the past tense, we need objects. I think using the verb diyen "to see" is a perfect way to show it.
diyen is an irregular verb and has different roots for past and non-past; di- and vinen-.
Dear Latinists will understand what is going on there. Just remember how ablative absolute works; it is a periphrastic way of building perfect clauses, and its sole purpose is to complement the absent perfect active participle.
Remember; Zazaki's past stem is actually the Old Iranian perfect participle. To mark the subject Latin uses ablative, while Zazaki uses oblique since there is nothing else to use (this is actually what oblique means, a case used for anything except nominative).
What about the subjunctive stem, then? It is used in the conjunctive clauses, imperative, optative, and jussive. It usually resembles the non-past stem, but with an -r at the end instead of -n, and has a prefix bı-.
Let's see the stems of the verbs we saw in a better way.

şiyen, şi-, şon-, şêr-
kerden, kerd-, ken-, bıker-
diyen, di-, vinen-, bıvin(er)-
Hopefully, this thread will explain how verbs function in Zazaki and their historical origin.

I will write more on this topic, but I believe this is a good introduction.
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