Adjectives are super important in Elessic, because Elves like to be descriptive and specific. This post will have a lot to do with Relational Adjectives, but there's something else I want to address alongside that:
In English, you can say "That smells good," or "I smell that." It's the same verb with two functions.
In Esperanto, you can say "Tiu odoras bone," or "Mi flaras tion." Different verbs for the two.
Elessic lacks "to be" verbs beyond sa (don't hold me to that), instead using sa and an Adjective. So, rather than saying "That smells good," you say, "That is good-smelling" which is awkward in English, but Elessic forms it in a more streamlined way.
tedos sa giner.
te- (that)
-dos (thing)
sa (is)
gin- (good [quality])
-er ([forms smells-like adjectives])
So, the "sensory" suffixes are as follows:
-ai - looks-like
-bwe - tastes-like
-er - smells-like
-ho - feels-like (intuition)
-sey - feels-like (physically)
-wa - sounds-like
Look familiar? No? Oh, I just realized I haven't released the post about special suffixes. Hold on.
Okay, that's out now. This is an example of Relational Adjectives, where a suffix is employed to indicate how the Noun that is used to form the Adjective describes the Noun being described.
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