Description:

The term 'riske' refers to obligations. It is one of the more difficult verbs for English speakers to master because the arguments are not aligned as expected.

Noun:

As a noun, 'riske' refers to a duty or obligation. It is also an expression used to talk about the future - the derived term 'riskesyn' means 'the future'. In an educational context, it can be used as a word for assignment or homework.

The derived form 'eríske' means 'discipline' and is often used as a word for religion, although it has a broader sense than just supernatural beliefs.

The derived form 'uriske' is a word for debt.

Verb:

As a verb, 'riske' is a transitive skurun verb. The argument pattern is a bit counter-intuitive to English speakers. It may be easier to understand 'riske' as meaning 'to be obliged by'. It takes an ergative subject that is the thing one is obliged to do usually a clause introduced with xi, and an absolutive object which is the person or entity which is under the obligation.

You can also make 'riske' into a statement about debt to a person. In that case, the entity to whom the debt is owed is in the errgative case, the entity which owes the debt is in the absolutive case, and the nature of the debt itself can optionally be introduced as a prepositional phrase introduced with ý'. Example:

A Can te riske ja Mari u nar suz reju ro ny luaslek.

'John owes Mary 5 reju from lunch.'

Riske can take a benefactive valence change to become a happat ditransitive verb, where the added dative indirect object is the beneficiary of the action ot the person or entity crating the obligation.

In addition, riske can be used as a chained term to modify the meaning of another verb. In that case, the action of the main verb is considered obligated, and the valence pattern of the overall sentence is as per the main verb. This is a common idiom to make future time explicit. The sense of 'obligation' can be idiomatic and is not necessary to be literal for future constructions.