Kardii Grammar: Sensation

Consider the distinction between the English words 'see' and 'look', or 'hear' and 'listen'. In these pairs, the first word merely describes a sensation, whereas the second word indicates a deliberate action. Kardii makes this distinction with all five senses. The involuntay verbs, in their noun function, are the stimulus of the sensation:



The voluntary verbs, in their noun function, are the sensory organ:



Where the names for these organs are different for animals, the sensory verb also differs. These animal verbs, however, tend to generalise to all animals:



These words can be turned into insults by using them to talk about people:



There is another set of sensory verbs used to describe a sensation. In their noun function, these words have the same meaning as the involuntary sensory verbs. In their verb function their meaning is either 'seem like' (or sound like, smell like, etc.):



These words, when there is no direct object, mean 'is able to be sensed':