Sleepy and tired

The main Kazujisha word for "sleepy" or "tired" is jinsyta. It's actually a compound, jinsya "to sleep" + take "to want", literally "to sleep-want". Even though you would expect it to behave like a verb, it only does that to an extent. It's a mix of an adjective and a verb. See: Me jinsyta can mean both "I am tired" and "I sleep-want" because they basically mean the same; also Jinsyta me "the sleepy I", not "* sleep-wants me" as you would assume as me occupies object position. All -ta (< -take) derivations behave like that, like esita "hungry" from esin "to eat" + take, kirbita "thirsty" (kirbi "to drink").

I haven't got a Kazujisha grammar book, but I would assume that -ta derivations are always intransitive and cannot take an object; instead, if it precedes a noun, it behaves like an adjective, not a verb. Does this mean that you cannot use -ta derivations for things like "I want to drink water"? In a way, yes, and it's pretty logical. "I drink-want water" is quite odd. It's easier to say me take kirbi tihental "I want [to] drink water".

But! Oddly enough, they can be used with objects in a te "to do" construction: me te tihental kirbita "I want to drink water (lit. I do water drink-want)", me te kedeki esita "I want to eat bread".

So, now I've written a bit about language for you language-learners. Hopefully you've learned something! Nesh ja!

Arikea