Kiravic Coscivian: Difference between revisions

There are only 20-30 verbs in formal written Kiravic, a great many of which are {{wp|semantic primes}}, such as ''lé'' ("exist, occur, happen"), ''va'' ("do"), ''èk'' ("arrive, become"), ''ka'' ("make"), ''er'' ("go"), ''kur'' ("put"), and ''send'' ("take", "consume", "undergo"). The range of meaning communicated by these verbs can be quite broad, and verbs usually need to be qualified with adverbs, nouns, and adpositions to express complete predicates. ''Sta'', for example, can mean "see", "hear", "feel", "taste", "smell", "perceive", "realise", or even "imagine". Verbs are not conjugated. Instead, tense, aspect, and mood are marked on nouns in the absolutive case, as detailed in the previous section.

Spoken Kiravic dialects often have verbs not present in the written registers, some of which are quite versatile. ''Śak'', used in [[Niyaska]] and eastern [[Etivéra]], can mean "raise/lower", "steal", "work out", "jump", "damage", "bungle", or "break up/crush into pieces". However, many spoken varieties of Kiravic, especially those used by speech communities that shifted to Kiravic from another languages (e.g. Aboriginals or immigrant groups) employ markedly fewer verbs than the written registers.