Description:

The term 'suka' has to do with liking and pleasing. The central sense if more like pleasing than liking.

Verb:

As a verb, the term 'suka' means to please or to like, with 'please' being a more sensible way for an English speaker to understand the verb. It is structured somewhat like the Spanish verb 'gustar'. It is a transitive skurun verb that takes an ergative thing which is liked or which is pleasing and an absolutive thing that does the liking. So it is backwards to the way the Engolish verb 'to like' works - the one who like is the object of the verb, not the subject.

Similar to Spanish, where the one who likes is often the topic of the statement, it is very common for the absolutive object to be fronted and the ergative subject to go to after it, to the end of the clause in a main clause. Common thinks as the thing liked as forcing the liker to like it, even if it doesn't actually have agency in the matter.

The antipassive pali form of the verb means to be pleasing, and is a common way to comment on something in a complimentary way. However, if the absolutive subject of the antipassive form has agency, the antipassive has the usual idiometic reflexive sense, and in this case it can be used as a euphemistic and polite way to say to masturbate - most Common speaking societies have no issues with masturbation and talk about it quite openly, so this is not necessarily taboo.

Noun:

As a noun, 'suka' means pleasure or likeability in general.

Modifier:

the modifier form 'sukas' means pleasant or likeable.