sufet
Keywords: household
Pronunciation (IPA): | 'su.vet |
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Part of Speech: | term verb noun |
Class: | skurun |
Forms: | sufet, sufetys, sufetysyn |
Glosses: | wash, clean, straighten, arrange, arrangement, neaten, order, put in order, clean thing |
Description:
The term 'sufet' is mainly used as a verb and means to wash or to clean, and also has the implication of set in order or straighten, make neat.
Sufet is a transitive skurun verb taking te, with an ergative cleaner and an absolutive thing being washed.
To talk about washing oneself, the usual idiom is to use the antipassive with se. In this case, the washer is promoted to the absolutive case, and the strong implication usually is that the thing washed is oneself, although it doesn't have to be, and a different washee can be introduced with the null preposition 'y'. One can also emphasize the reflexive nature of the action using the adverb 'winys' for 'self' - in this case, it is still good idiomatic Common to use the antipassive.
To talk about washing a part of onesself, that part is introduced with the null preposition, and if it is something normally washed more than one thing at a time, like hands, it will be in the paucal. A possessive is generally never used. For example:
We se sufet nar sef.
I am washing my hands.
The modifier form 'sufetys' means 'clean', 'arranged' and the derived term 'sufetysyn' means an order or arrangement. Sufetysyn is notable for being in the name of the New World Order itself, 'na lufis Sufetysyn na Onpa'.