Editing Limqefa (section)

== Suffixes ==
when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel to a word that ends in a vowel, remove the final vowel of that word first.

=== {{limw|-ek}}: adjectivizor ===
{{limw|-ek}} turns a noun N into an adjective meaning "like or pertaining to N".
it also turns a transitive verb V into an adjective meaning "having had V done to it", similar to a detransitivizor or participle.
* {{limcon|kom-is|food|kom-is-ek|pertaining to food, foodlike}}
* {{limcon|kishosh|break, destroy|kishosh-ek|broken, destroyed}}
* {{limcon|le eka kishosh e lhoni|i destroyed the computer|lhoni kishosh-ek sa qo|the destroyed computer is good}}

=== {{limw|-is}}: patientivizor ===
{{limw|-is}} turns a transitive verb V into a noun meaning "patient/object of V", similar to -ee in english or Rey in vötgil.
* {{limcon|koma|to eat|kom-is|food}}
* {{limcon|qo-ye|to improve (sth)|qo-y-is|improved thing}}

=== {{limw|-alh}}: gerundizor ===
{{limw|-alh}} turns a verb V into a noun meaning "action, process, state, or result of V happening", similar to -ing or -tion in english.
* {{limcon|lim|talk|limalh|conversation, communication}}
* {{lim|le eka qo-y'e lhoni. qoyelhte sa qo|i fixed the computer. this fixing is good}}

=== {{limw|-ye}}: verbalizor ===
{{limw|-ye}} turns an adjective A into a verb meaning "cause (sth) to become A".
* {{limcon|qo|good|qoye|make sth good; improve; help; heal}}

when {{limw|-ye}} is immediately followed by the object marker {{limw|e}}, then {{limw||-ye e}} is contracted to {{limw|-y'e}}.

=== {{limw|-te}}: definite article ===
appending {{limw|-te}} to a noun N indicates that this N is the same N as the one we are already talking about, or is salient to the conversation.

=== {{limw|-o-}}: object incorporation ===
for a verb V and a noun-phrase N, NoV is a verb meaning "to do V to N" (or "to do V in a way associated with/pertaining to N? maybe?).
it is often used with {{limw|-alh}}.
* {{lim|efon-o-lim-alh|saying numbers}}
* {{lim|efon-o-lim-alh sa qo aq le|i like saying numbers}}
* {{lim|ma-eshle-o-qo-y-alh|improvement of one's sensory environment}}

(TODO this feature is still a little half baked and i may yet change or remove it. i want to have a way to make lexicalized compounds seem distinctive from ad-hoc juxtapositions but i don't know how much i want this)