Morphology
Suki is an agglutinating language primarily via suffixing, though a small number of prefixes have been attested. Both nouns and verbs can take a large number of suffixes. The verbal structure is as follows, where items in parentheses are optional: verb root + (causative suffix) + (person-object suffix) + (transitive suffix) + tense suffix + person-number suffix. The person suffixes are as follows:
| Person-Object | Person-Number | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st singular | -ne | -aru |
| 2nd/3rd singular | -ΓΈ | -eru |
| 1st plural | -iye | -erimu |
| 2nd/3rd plural | -de | -eru |
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