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This is a Pashto grammar reference. It's just barely getting started. 👷‍♂️🏗 Pashto has a reputation for being difficult or mysterious. Learners are often overwhelmed and baffled by the how the words are constantly inflecting and changing, and they can be confused by the structure of sentences with past tense verbs, etc. 😩
But once we dive in and see how the language works we will see that **Pashto has a very beautiful and clear structure**. Like interlocking stones 🧱, or Lego pieces, the words and phrases have clear rules and constraints about how they can be placed together. Once we understand these rules, we can confidently and happily build little structures of meaning.
**Grammar is basically a set of rules about how words and phrases are joined together to express ideas**. It's the rulebook our brain uses whenever we hear or speak a language. 🧠📔
For native speakers, grammar is something that is internalized from childhood. 👶 It just 'feels right' and they never need to think consciously about what these rules are or why they work the way they do.
For adult learners, it's a little more complicated. There *is* a degree of subconscious internalization of these grammar rules that happens just by exposure or immersion in a new language. Our adult brains are able to discern and internalize *some* of the patterns and rules automatically. But just as with accent, the adult brain doesn't automatically pick up the grammar perfectly. We misunderstand things and are puzzled about what some sentences mean or how to say certain things. We can feel really confident that we are saying something correctly, but in reality be spewing awkward gibberish. 😬
So, **when learning any language we need to put in some good hard effort in to discover what these rules of the language are**, so we can understand how words and phrases are put together to express ideas clearly.
Learning a language and its grammar is more than just discovering and memorizing a few rules. It's a constant process of discovery, understanding, and internalizing or re-training our brains to follow these new rules automatically. Our brains learn alot (maybe most) through exposure and subconscious processing of the language. But we also need to check ourselves, to see if we're really understanding how a certain rule or structure works, or if we're just carrying over a habit or a rule from another language we know. Then, once we understand how something really does work in the new language, we need to internalize it (through lots of exposure and pratice) so that it becomes automatic or natural for us.
This grammar aims to help in this process of learning and getting used to the beautiful but often misunderstood language of Pashto. If you really want you can read through it front to back, but probably most will use it as a reference, looking at different sections as needed.
This is very much a work in progress. 🏗👷‍♂️ I am slowly adding more and more to this grammar as I learn and understand more Pashto. Many additions and corrections will be needed.
I hope this grammar helps to show that **Pashto isn't difficult... it's rich and beautiful**.

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## The order of mini-pronouns
In some sentences we might have more than one mini-prounoun. In these cases, it can be confusing for learners to know which pronoun has what role. For example, have a look at these sentences:
<Examples opts={defaultTextOptions}>{[
{ p: "پلار مې یې وهي", f: "plaar me ye wahee" },
]}</Examples>
Does this mean "My dad is hitting him" or "His dad is hitting me" ?
<details className="mb-3">
<summary>Answer:</summary>
It means, "."
</details>
<Examples opts={defaultTextOptions}>{[
{ p: "کتاب مې یې ولیده", f: "kitaab me ye óoleedu" },
]}</Examples>
Does this mean "He saw my book" or "I saw his book" ?
<details className="mb-3">
<summary>Answer:</summary>
It means, "I saw his book."
</details>
<Examples opts={defaultTextOptions}>{[
{ p: "غږ مې دې واورېده", f: "ghuG me de wáawredu" },
]}</Examples>
Does this mean "I heard your voice" or "You heard my voice" ?
<details className="mb-3">
<summary>Answer:</summary>
It means, "I heard your voice."
</details>