Demonstrative-quality adjectives in Dairwueh

By adding certain suffixes to adjectives or verbs in Dairwueh, they acquire a quality-wise demonstrative meaning.


Doxs embəl šildrot laxerıŋlo
Need I.dat spear.acc long-thus.acc
I need a spear this long (usually accompanied by visual cues)

Purıŋla!
Kneel! (like I do) - often, when used with imperatives, either the person uttering the imperative will demonstrate how to, or the action is prompted by culturally significant reasons - such as an emperor or other important person arriving or participation in religious rituals.

It can also have an adverbial function:

Surdunıŋla, kwarša eme vepnətıŋla
burden(v).thus, fight-1sgpast I weak.thus
thus burdened, I fought as weakly as I did/comparably weakly (per some external standard)

It can also have a somewhat intensifying function, although most often preceded by or followed by some kind of thing by which to measure the degree of the quality:

Erbaŋ Kalt krasn.ıŋla - agre.šne əkn ke əkn
is.3sgpres Kalt stupid.thus - understand.not one and one (~one plus one)

Šartəriŋŋla!
damn.3sgpast-thus
"fuck it". After the third person past tense suffix -iŋ, the -ı- part of the -ıŋla suffix tends to be omitted.