Editing Pashto (section)

==Grammar==
{{Main|Pashto grammar}}
Pashto is a [[subject–object–verb]] (SOV) language with [[split ergativity]]. In Pashto, this means that the verb agrees with the subject in transitive and intransitive sentences in non-past, non-completed clauses, but when a completed action is reported in any of the past tenses, the verb agrees with the subject if it is intransitive, but with the object if it is transitive.<ref name="Pashto-language"/> [[Verb]]s are inflected for present, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, and past perfect tenses. There is also an inflection for the [[subjunctive mood]].

Nouns and adjectives are [[inflection|inflected]] for two [[Grammatical gender|genders]] (masculine and feminine),<ref>Emeneau, M. B. (1962) "Bilingualism and Structural Borrowing" ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society'' 106(5): pp. 430–442, p. 441</ref> two [[Grammatical number|numbers]] (singular and plural), and four [[Grammatical case|cases]] (direct, oblique, ablative, and vocative). The possessor precedes the possessed in the genitive construction, and [[adjective]]s come before the [[noun]]s they modify.

Unlike most other Indo-Iranian languages, Pashto uses all three types of [[adpositional phrase|adpositions]]—prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions.