Description:

The modifier 'cajre' is a heavily used modifier that says that something is correct or exact.

Verb Modifier:

As a verbal modifier, cajre implies the action is undertaken sompletely and successfully. Example:

Ja pikki tene cajre slek a skitrem.
The-ERG cat hit-NP-PERF eat the-ABS mouse.

'The cat has eaten the mouse all up'

Noun Modifier:As a noun modifier, cajre has a sense of just (both as in justice and as in near or exact), exact, right or correct. It can also sometimes be used in a sense of 'complete' or 'successful', although there are other modifiers that might be more commonly used for these meaning. It can also be used to mean 'on time'.

Tight Binding Form:

'Cajre' has an irregular tight binding form 'cajno', which has its own dictionary entry, attached. Cajno has a similar sense as a tightly binding modifier that cajre does as a loosely binding modifier, but is used to modify other modifiers. It is a member of the 'precision set' of core tightly binding modifiers along with the regular 'mikteno', 'about, roughly'.

The negative form 'ikcájre' means wrong, unfair or incorrect. Cajre and ikcájre can have the sense of moral and immoral.

Derived Term Form:

Derived as a term, as a noun, 'cajren' means both a right, as in a human right or a right under the law, and a just act. As a verb, cajren is an intransitive pali verb meaning to be right or be correct. 'Zu sy se cajren', for example, is a way of saying 'you are right.' It can be used in a benefactive noxaj form where a beneficiary of a just act, or a thing one is right about, is added as a dative argument.

In the moral realm, the derived form 'cajren' can be used to express the idea of 'morality', with 'cajrenysyn' expressing this abstraction unabiguously.