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riapari — to reappear

rizwo — to redo.

tra — through(out):

tralekti — to read through (from begining to end);

tranochi — to spend the night.

Verb suffixes

isi — makes transitive verbs, means "to make, render, transform into, bring into a condition" (same as mah-):

agni — fire

agnisi — fire up, burn up

detal — detail (noun)

detalisi — detail (verb)

iri — be angry

irisi — anger, enrage

aktive — active

aktivisi — activate

klare — clear

klarisi — clarify

elektre — electric

elektrisi — electrify

If added to a noun ending in -ia, "-ia" is dropped:

mifologia mythology — mifologisi mythologise.

ifi — makes intransitive verbs, means "to get, to become" (same as fa-):

agni — fire

agnifi — flame up, burst into flame

iri — be angry

irifi — get angry

aktive — active

aktivifi — become more active

klare — clear

klarifi — become clear(er)

elektre — electric

elektrifi — electrify, become electric

vati — used for deriving verbs in cases where the use of –i is undesirable:

chay — tea

chayvati koywan — to take smb to tea

dandi — dandy, fop

dandivati — behave foppishly

kao — handcuffs

kaovati — to handcuff

pao — bubble

paovati — to bubble, form bubbles

surya — sun

suryavati koysa— to sun smth Nouns Noun endings

Most nouns end in -a or consonants (but, as a rule, not 'b', 'g' or 'd'):

lingwa — language

jiva — life

kordia — heart

vagon — carriage

situasion — situation

aksham — evening

profesor — professor

dwar — door

nivel — level

mes — month

fish — fish

chokolat — chocolate

handak — ditch

taraf — side

Nouns may end also in other vowels:

kino — cinema

oko — eye

shampu — shampoo

madu — honey

kafee — cafe

shosee — highway

mani — money

gari — cart

taxi — taxi

chay — tea

skay — sky

The word "ski" ski, to ski has the same form as a noun and as a verb. The singular

The basic noun form does not convey the grammatical meaning of singularity. To specify singularity, use "un" (one) or the optional marker of the singular "ge" (piece, single item):

doga — dog/dogs

un doga, doga-ge — one dog. Plurals

The basic noun form does not convey the grammatical meaning of singularity. To specify singularity, use "un" one. In order to specify plurality, the plural form of noun may be used. Its ending is -(e)s. If a noun ends in a vowel, add -s; otherwise add -es:

lingwa — language/languages

lingwas — languages

boy — boy/boys

boys — boys

aksham — evening/evenings

akshames — evenings

•   When speaking generally about a group or class of uniform objects, plural endings are not used:

Yan chi bush. — Sheep eat bushes.

Amiga sempre helpi. — A friend always helps.

Bobra es animal. — Beavers are animals.

•   After any indication of plurality (numerals; quantifiers like ‘mucho’ many, much, ‘kelke’ several, some, ‘shao’ little, ‘ambi’ both, ‘grupa de’ a group of, ‘menga de’ a lot of, ‘para’ a pair of; plural subject, personal pronouns 'nu' we, 'li' they), as a rule, plural endings are not used:

pet jen — five people

tristo dolar — three hundred dollars

trishi kilometra — thirty kilometers

mucho yar — many years

shao jen — few people

kelke pes sukra — some pieces of sugar

oli dey — all days

oli jen — all people

Sey jenta es hao guner. — These people are good workers.

(Jenta means folk, (a particular group of) people).

Li es may amiga. — They are my friends.

Luy amigas es studenta. — His friends are students.

Toy kelke rosa es jamile. — Those roses are beautiful.

(lit.: Those some roses are beautiful).

A note: plural endings may be used after “mucho” and “shao” in order to specify that countable objects are implied (in cases where a noun may be countable as well as uncountable):

shao ananas — few pineapples or little of pineapple

shao ananases — few pineapples

shao de ananas — little of pineapple

mucho fish — many fishes or much fish

mucho fishes — many fishes

mucho de fish — much fish.

•   In case of pair objects the plural endings are usually used:

okos — eyes

labas — lips

handas — hands

plechas — shoulders. Sex indication

There is no grammatical gender. Animate nouns may be of both sexes:

doga — a dog (never mind whether male or female)

amiga — friend (generally)

gova — a bull or a cow (such notion is practical in plural form: govas — cows and bulls)

swina — a pig of any sex

gansa — a goose or a gander (gansas — geese).

If there is need to indicate sex, it may be done two ways.

The first, more frequent, way is the use of particles ‘man’ and ‘gin’:

man-doga — male dog

gin-doga — female dog

man-studentas — male students (‘studentas’ are students generally)

man-gova — bull

gin-gova — cow

man-swina — boar.

Another, less frequent, way is the use of suffixes -o for masculine and -ina for feminine. If a noun ends in -a, the latter is dropped, otherwise the suffix is simply added:

rega — king/queen

rego — king

regina — queen

dogo — male dog

dogina — female dog

studento — male student

studentina — female student

govo — bull

govina — cow

swino — male pig

swinina — female pig

ganso — gander

gansina — female goose.

It is obvious that it is not always needed to indicate sex, so it is correct to say:

Ela es hao leker. — She is a good doctor.

Ela es hao amiga. — She is a good friend.

Juchka es pumbe doga. — Zhuchka is a silly dog.

•   In several cases different words are used for the male and female:

mata/patra — mother/father

oma/opa — grandmother/grandfather

docha/son — daughter/son

kindocha/kinson — granddaughter/grandson