{"book":"adl0957","page":353,"text":"288\n\nExpressions of farewell:\n\"God be your protector\"\nxudau aufiz\n\"Be in God's safety\" bau maunt\nxudau\n\nGeneral expressions:\n\"Don't get tired\" maunda nabaushi\n\"Go ahead\" (polite form) bufer-mauyen\n\"If God wills\" inshaulau\n\"It doesn't matter\" parwau nes\n\"Please\" merabauni kada (or) lutfan\n\"Thank you\" tashakur\n\"Sir\" sauib\n\"Mister\" (at end of names) xaun\n\"Yes\" balé\n\"No\" ne\n\nThe Present and Future Tense of the Verb:\n\"I do, I shall do\" mekonum\n\"We do, we shall do\" mekonem\n\"You do, you will do\" mekoni\n\"You do, you will do\" mekonen\n\"He, she, it does, will do\" mekona\n\"They do, they will do\" mekonan\n\nThe verb \"to be\" with personal pronouns is as follows:\n\"I am\" ma astum\n\"We are\" mau astem\n\"You are\" tu asti\n\"You are\" sumau asten\n\"He, she, it is\" u as\n\"They are\" uau astan\n\nThe following are some useful question and answer patterns:\n\"What is this?\" i cis?\n\"This is bread.\" i naun as.\n\"What do you want?\" ci mexaui?\n\"I want water.\" au mexauyum.\n\"Where is the hotel?\" otal kojaus?\n\"The hotel is there.\" otal ujaus.\n\nThe following are the numbers:\n(1) yak\n(2) du\n(3) se\n(4) cor\n(5) panj\n(6) sas\n(7) aft\n(8) ast","chars":1107,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00353.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/353","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/353","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}