Grammar: verbs of becoming

Add "-nema" to an adjective to turn it into a verb of becoming the thing expressed by the adjective.

We’ve covered how to turn a verb into a noun and how to create a noun for the actor of a verb in previous articles.

But what can you do with adjectives, besides turning them into adverbs?

One productive mechanism for creating verbs is to create verbs of “becoming”.

Here “productive” means you can use this mechanism for any adjective and readers/listeners will understand you.

The critical component here is the “-ne-” infix that you can add to the stem of an adjective to derive the “becoming”-verb.