Feelings
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 suffix 'din on a feeling-related noun or adjective. If the feeling has both a noun and adjective form, use the noun. When the attached word ends in a consonant, some dialects permit dropping the ending consonant.
Format: [subject] [object] [noun/adjective]'din.
Example (full word): Gar ni kaden'din. You make me angry. (You to me are a giver of angry feelings.)
Example (contracted word): Gar ni kade'din.
Some feeling-related adjectives and phrases
Tion gar mirjahaal? How are you feeling? How is your mental health?
angry: kaden
attractive: copyc
boring: mirshepar'la
brave: kotep
charismatic: jarkivyc
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