Description:

The term 'rit' is one of the most basic and useful words of the Common language and has to do with getting or obtaining - it's also the verb for becoming. It is primarily used as a verb and is useful as a chained term verbal modifier, where it is used to indicate immediate or certain future.

Verb:

As a verb, 'rit' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to get or obtain something. It takes an ergative obtainer and an absolutive thing obtained. It has a couple of idiomatically important valence change operations.

'Rit' has a benefactive happat form where the sense is 'to procure' or 'to fetch' rather than 'to get', and a dative beneficiary of the procurement is added. This form retains the sense of procurement as an agent for someone or something else even when the dative object isn't explicitly stated.

The most important form of the verb, though, is probably its antipassive, where it idiomatically means to become. In this form, it works grammatically like a copular verb like 'an', 'to be'. Any modifier applied to the verb is taken to apply to the absolutive subject, so you could say something like:

A sy se rit eotil.

'He/she is turning red.'

When it is desirable for some modifiers to apply to the verb and others to be taken to be applied by the verb to the subject, the former will tend to go on the bracket between the auxiliary and the verb:

A sy se esif rit eotil.

'He/she is quickly turning red.'

To say that someone or something is becoming something expressed as a noun phrase, that phrase would be in the nominative case introduced by a preposition:

A paluh epis a pikki se rit nar ema.

'The dog and the cat are becoming friends.'

The antipassive is generally used in one of these ways - when such a periphrastic argument or modifier is not used, there is usually a conversational antecedent being referred to.

Atmospherics, comments on general conditions without a clear subject, are not generally handled this way. Instead, an avalent verb form for the condition described with the modifier 'ritys' would be used. So to say 'it's getting dark', instead of:

*Se rit synti.

You would say:

Zres ritys syntin.

The former would be fine if there were a proper subject other than a general atmospheric that was being omitted but was clearly understood, like 'zoa', 'sky'.

'Rit' can also be used as a modifying term with instransitive verbs of state to indicate the process of achieving that state rather than being in that state. For example:

We se rit slan.
I am getting well/I am healing.

We sea rit hitaj.
I was falling asleep.

Noun:

As a noun, 'rit' means something like hussle or taking care of business. It can also directly mean procurement, although the derived form 'ritysyn' may be used in this sense.