{"book":"adl0957","page":354,"text":"289\n\n(9) no\n(10) da\n(11) yauzda\n(12) duauzda\n(13) sezda\n(14) chorda\n(15) ponzda\n(16) shonzda\n(17) abda\n(18) azhda\n(19) nozda\n(20) bist\n(21) bist-u-yak\n(30) si\n(40) chil\n(50) pinjau\n(60) shast\n(70) aftaud\n(80) ashtaud\n(90) nawad\n(100) yak-sad\n(101 yak-sad-u-yak\n(1,000) yag-azor\n(100,000) yak-lak\n\nTelling Time :\n\"What time is it?\" chan bajas? \"It's 3.\" se bajas. \"It's 9 : 10.\" no u das.\n\nThe days of the week are:\n\"Sunday\" yakshambe, \"Monday\" dushambe, \"Tuesday\" seshambe, \"Wednesday\" chorshambe, \"Thursday\" panshambe, \"Friday\" juma, \"Saturday\" shambe.\n\nThe seasons are:\n\"spring\" awali baur, \"summer\" baur, \"fall\" tirmau, \"winter\" zimistaun.\n\nThe directions are expressed in this way :\n\"north\" shamaul, \"south\" junub, \"east\" mashriq, \"west\" magrib. \"to the right\" tarafi raus, \"straight ahead\" ru ba ru, \"to the left\" tarafi chap.\n\nThe following are imperative commands :\n\"Bring tea.\" caui biaur. \"Buy sugar\" bura bixar. \"Take the tea.\" cauia bubar. \"Bring the coffee.\" kofira biaur. \"Fill the cup\". piaulara pur ko. \"Wait.\" sabir ko. \"Go to the bazaar.\" bauzaur buro. \"Don't go to the bazaar.\" bauzaur naro. \"Don't empty the cup.\" piaulara xauli nako. \"Come here.\" ijabiau.\n\nThe simple past tense is as follows :\n\"I did\" kadum, \"You did\" kadi, \"He, she, it did\" kad, \"We did\" kadem, \"You did\" kaden, \"They did\" kadan. \"I did not do.\" nakadum.","chars":1344,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00354.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/354","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/354","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."}}