Description:

The term 'pulek' refers to making a purchase. It has an overlap with the verb 'mencu', to sell.

Verb:

As a verb, 'pulek' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to buy that takes an ergative buyer and an absolutive thing bought. It's antipassive pali form is a commonly used idiom for 'to shop'.

You can also say 'to shop' with the expression 'jusal pulek', which means to want to buy, which can also imply more strongly that you intend to actually purchase something. In either of these cases, if you're shopping for something, it can be expressed by introducing it with the preposition 'u', and if you're just shopping around without the intent necessarily to buy, it is customary to use the irrealis mood.

You can also use a benefactive ditransitive happat form to talk about buying something for someone else, where the beneficiary can be expressed in the dative case.

Noun:

As a noun, 'pulek' is a shop or store, a place where purchases are made, from the point of view of a purchaser. It can also be a transaction from the point of view of the purchaser, but that sense can be disambiguated with 'pulekysyn'. 'Pulekka' is unambiguously the thing purchased, and 'pulekca' the buyer.