Description:

The term 'nyfe' refers to levels or grades of something. Unlike in English, you would not uses it to talk about a flat or level surface or the degree of grade of a surface, it is strictly about ranking things into classes.

Noun:

As a noun, nyfe means a level, class or grade of something. It can also mean a rank. Unlike 'hot', 'nyfe' implies both classification and ranking on a scale. It can also be a level or floor of a building.

The derived form 'unýfe' means a promotion up a rank, and 'ronýfe' means to graduate from some program with a ranked progression, like a school.

Verb:

As a verb, 'nyfe' is an intransitive pali verb that means to be ranked. It can take modifiers like ordinal numbers - for example:

A Toni se suzys nyfe.
Tony is ranked fifth.

It can also tke a prepositional phrase introduced with 'wajy' to specify the rank:

A Toni se nyfe wajy ny netys hulaz.
Tony is classified as a third year.

A level is usually required. The causative skurun form adds an ergative subject which classifies or assigns the grade to the absolutive object. In this case, the level can be included as in the pali form, or omitted.

The derived form unýfe means to level up or be promoted. Otherwise it works exactly like nyfe.

The derived form ronýfe means to graduate (from some kind of ranked program like school) and is also a pali verb. Optionally, what is being graduated from can be specified with ro.

Modifier:

The modifier form 'nyfes' is read idomatically as 'high class/highly ranked', or 'on the ascendant'. depending on context. In a ranked group setting, like in the military, describing an individual with nyfes implies they are the most highly ranked, as in 'ranking officer'.