u/Easy_Mud_2522

Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well.

I'm a Jatki native from Lalian and I teach it in a server as well, now due to the past indefinite tense being split ergative you would have to say "khaada haayi" and you can't say "khaada ham" in my dialect but a Saraiki friend of mine in the server said he'd say "khaada ham" and I really tried understanding how is that possible because then he also said that you can't say "main khaada ham" because that would be grammatically incorrect but you can say "khaada ham" that's grammatically correct but to my understanding "main" is implied in "khaada ham" even if you don't write it.

I like learning about Saraiki from him every now and then due to how similar Jatki is to Saraiki in some aspects but there's also a lotta aspects which are very new to me and this here has confused me a lot, I'm not saying he doesn't know I'm just saying he wasn't able to explain it to me very well which is why I've come here to ask all my Saraiki brothers here.

Can you guys please explain this feature? How is saying "khaada ham" possible and why is "main khaada ham" grammatically incorrect but "khaada ham" is grammatically sound.

Thank you for reading this all and I hope you all have a beautiful day!

(oh and please do tell me how you'd personally say "khaaya tha" i.e "khaada haayi" in Jatki)

Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well.

I'm a Jatki native from Lalian and I teach it in a server as well, now due to the past indefinite tense being split ergative you would have to say "khaada haayi" and you can't say "khaada ham" in my dialect but a Saraiki friend of mine in the server said he'd say "khaada ham" and I really tried understanding how is that possible because then he also said that you can't say "main khaada ham" because that would be grammatically incorrect but you can say "khaada ham" that's grammatically correct but to my understanding "main" is implied in "khaada ham" even if you don't write it.

I like learning about Saraiki from him every now and then due to how similar Jatki is to Saraiki in some aspects but there's also a lotta aspects which are very new to me and this here has confused me a lot, I'm not saying he doesn't know I'm just saying he wasn't able to explain it to me very well which is why I've come here to ask all my Saraiki brothers here.

Can you guys please explain this feature? How is saying "khaada ham" possible and why is "main khaada ham" grammatically incorrect but "khaada ham" is grammatically sound.

Thank you for reading this all and I hope you all have a beautiful day!

(oh and please do tell me how you'd personally say "khaaya tha" i.e "khaada haayi" in Jatki)

Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well.

I'm a Jatki native from Lalian and I teach it in a server as well, now due to the past indefinite tense being split ergative you would have to say "khaada haayi" and you can't say "khaada ham" in my dialect but a Sareiki friend of mine in the server said he'd say "khaada ham" and I really tried understanding how is that possible because then he also said that you can't say "main khaada ham" because that would be grammatically incorrect but you can say "khaada ham" that's grammatically correct but to my understanding "main" is implied in "khaada ham" even if you don't write it.

I like learning about Sareiki from him every now and then due to how similar Jatki is to Sareiki in some aspects but there's also a lotta aspects which are very new to me and this here has confused me a lot, I'm not saying he doesn't know I'm just saying he wasn't able to explain it to me very well which is why I've come here to ask all my Sareiki brothers here.

Can you guys please explain this feature? How is saying "khaada ham" possible and why is "main khaada ham" grammatically incorrect but "khaada ham" is grammatically sound.

Thank you for reading this all and I hope you all have a beautiful day!

(oh and please do tell me how you'd personally say "khaaya tha" i.e "khaada haayi" in Jatki)