Ways to express physical and emotional states of being
Express an ongoing mood or how the speaker currently feels with a feeling-related adjective.
Format: [subject] [adjective].
Example: Ni briikase. I am happy.
Express an ongoing mood or how the speaker currently feels with the verb aalar and a feeling-related noun or adjective.
Format: [subject] aala [noun/adjective].
Examples: Ni aala trikar. I feel sadness. Ni aala duhaala. I feel sick.
Express an emotional reaction to something or someone with the verb dinuir, a feeling-related noun, and the object of the reaction.
Format: [subject] dinui [feeling noun] bah [object].
Example: Gar dinui a'den bah ni. You give rage to me.
Example: Gar dinui briikase aaloya bah ni. You give happy feelings to me. (Note: aaloya, feeling/emotion, is from mandoa.ru and also used by the Oyu'baat and MandoCreator.)
Some feeling-related descriptors and phrases
Tion gar mirjahaal? How are you feeling? How is your mental health?
This list includes ways to talk about both physical and mental states. Thus, it offers more feeling-related words and phrases than are necessarily appropriate for answering a question about a person's mental state.
angry: kaden
attractive: copyc
boring: mirshepar'la
brave: kotep
charismatic (fan word): jarkivla
clever, intelligent: mirdala
cowardly: hut'uunla
cranky, "in a mood": gedin’la
cunning: hodayc
desire vengeance: copaani gra’tua
desire revenge: copaani skira
determined, resolute: narseryc
drunk: batnor
feel amazing: aala kandosii’la
feel bad: aala dush
feel boring: aala mirshepar'la
feel desperate: aala aikiyc
feel excellent: aala ori'jate
feel good: aala jate
feel important: aala jaon’yc
feel like a coward: aala sa hut’uun
feel like a failure: aala sa nibral
feel like a fool, empty-headed person: aala sa utreekov
feel normal: aala nu'amyc
feel safe: aala morut'yc
feel stagnant: aala arasuum'la
feel thankful: gedeteya
feel unusual: aala haamyc
feel young: aala evaar'la
fiesty: nehutyc
friendly (fan word): burcyala
happy: briikase
healthy: jahaala
insane: dini'la
low-life, evil-minded: chakaaryc
loyal: verburyc
merciless: adenn
mourning, emotionally lost: echoy'la
no-nonsense: ori'beskaryc
numb: jaal
overconfident: layari
pathetic: laandur
peaceful: naakla
pitiless: teroch
prepared, ready: tsikala
quite happy and content with life: jatne manda
reliable: ruusaanyc
sad: trikar'la
satisfied — specifically, full from eating: yaiyai'yc
sick (fan word): duhaala
stupidly oblivious of danger: jare'la
tenacious, stubborn: atin
tired: haryc
tough: atin'la
traitorous: aruetyc
unflappable: udesla
unusual: haamyc
useless as an individual: di'kutla
want justice: copaani tor
with ambition: ti copad
with courage: ti mirshko
with fear: ti chaab
with grief: ti or'trikar
with lucky, lucky: ti kate’kara
with pain: ti aaray
with truth: ti haat
wrathful, enraged: a'denla