In case you didn't notice, I've been bolding the word 'do' every time I reference verbs. That's because the scribble for 'do,' which is
in scribblish, is the single scribble that makes a set of scribbles into words. The way I remember this scribble is thinking about the classic greek story, where that one guy pushes a boulder up a hill. There's a slope upward, and a circular boulder in the middle. The guy is pushing the boulder up the slope. He is doing something.
Let's use this in an example. The word for 'my eye' is
. (Quick tangent: Literal translation is Me see/look/display, it's the 'see' of 'me'. If you wanted to say your looks, you could add the scribble for 'of' in between, meaning it's "me's" see/look/display, or my looks). If you wanted to say 'I see' or 'I look,' you could simply add the 'do' scribble to the end, like so:
. Translated literally, it means 'my eye do.' My eye does. What does an eye do? It sees! It sees all.
What we covered in the top section was the infinitive form, or conjugation. If you hate grammar, you shuddered like I did when you heard the word 'conjugation.' I tried to make conjugating verbs as simple as possible. Let's think of time as a line. To the right is the future. To the left is the past. All you have to do is say you 'will do' something is to add an arrow tick to the top left of the 'do' scribble. If you want to say you 'did' something, you add an arrow tick to the bottom left of the 'do' scribble. Finally, if you want to say you are actively doing something, draw an arrow pointing down, basically at a point on the timeline, with a boulder in the middle, too.
What if you wanted to say that something is used to do something else? For example, a pencil is a writer. It writes. You could add a little arrow pointing to the future (aka pointing right) under (or to the left of) the 'do' scribble. With another boulder on top, of course. If you want to say something has done something in the past (ex. I "used to" [or "would"] go for a run every Monday until it got too cold), you do the same thing, but with an arrow pointing to the past (aka pointing left). Below is a table of all these things neatly organized.
I tried to make this simple, as well. You can put who's doing the action at the beginning of the verb. If you want to differentiate the subject and the verb more, you can add a "
" before the verb begins, effectively enclosing the verb in between 2 'do' scribbles.
There's one last thing I'd like to mention. Say you wanted to say you're making a table. You can use the verb 'to make' and then add the article 'a' directly after the 'do' with the object being made. You can do this with any verb that modifies/is directly related to a noun. See the example table below to see what I'm talking about.
| English word/phrase/sentence | Scribblish word/phrase/sentence | Explanation |
| (general) do | j | The general form of verbs. You can use it to say 'to go,' 'to eat,' etc.. |
| Will do | Û | The future tense, basically. You'll say 'will go,' 'will eat,' etc.. |
| Did do | Ü | The past tense, basically. You'll say 'did go' 'did eat,' etc.. |
| doing | j} | The present tense, basically. You can use it to say 'going,' 'eating,' etc.. |
| do-er (device that is used to do X) | æ | You can think of it as the Home Depot (tm) ad, "How doers get more done." You have a tool that does something. You can also think about it as a machine like a 'goer,' something that makes something else go. You can add more complexity to this to make it mean 'car,' or 'bike,' by attaching scribbles between the 'do' scribble and the 'go' scribble (which is seen in the below table). |
| Have done (repeatedly in the past) | ~ | You can use this form when you want to say that you did something every day for the past week, for example. |
| English word/phrase/sentence | Scribblish word/phrase/sentence | Explanation |
| I see | nåj | Literally "I see/look do." The 'do' scribble makes 'see' into a verb. Without it, it would modify 'I' to mean "My eye." |
| I see a table | nåjQ¹R. | Literally "I see/look do [a] table [end of a]." The first part of the verb is the same as the above row, all we're doing is adding what I see/look at in between the 'a' brackets. |
| I'm looking at/seeing | nåj} | Literally "I see/look do present/now." All I'm adding to the inital form of 'to see' is the present/now marker. |
| I will look at/will see a table | nåÛQ¹R. | Literally "I see/look {will do} [a] table [end of a]." All I'm changing from the second row is switching out the 'do' scribble with the 'will do' scribble. If you want to type this into the translator, you can type "willdo" instead of "do" |
| I looked at/saw a table | nåÜQ¹R. | Literally "I see/look {have did} [a] table [end of a]." All that's changinc from the above row is switching the "will do" scribble with the "have did" scribble. If you want to type this into the translator, you can type "havedid" instead of "do" or "willdo" |
| Calculator (noun) | ä~ | Literally, "calculate/solve/compute do-er." Replace 'do' with 'doer' and you can make any verb into a noun that means a (thing)-doer! To type this into the translator, you can type 'doer' instead of 'do' |
| calculating | äj} | Literally, "calculate/solve/compute do present/now." Just add the present/now scribble directly after the 'do' scribble, and there you go! |
| To go | vj | Literally, "go do." I just wanted to show how to write 'go.' To remember this, you can think of stick figure legs in the running posistion. That's how I came up with that, anyway. |
| I go | nvj | Literally, "I go do." Exactly the same form as the first row, just a different verb. |
| I will go to the store | nvÛQÒÓÎÑÄR | Literally, "I go {will do} [a] store [end of a]." Anothe example of a verb's object being enclosed in the 'a' brackets! This is just a future tense example I wanted to show. |
| To make a table | ujQ¹R | Literally, "I new do [a] table [end of a]." To remember the scribble for 'new,' you can think of it as a flower (or a weed) sprouting from the ground. Again, the object of the verb is being enclosed in the 'a' brackets. |
| I'm making a table | nuj}Q¹R | Literally, "I new do present/now [a] table [end of a]." Present tense example of the above row. |
| To go to a place | vjQsR | Literally, "I go do [a] place [end of a]." Another example, again of the object in brackets. Figured I'd show it using the go verb. |
| To jump | £jXIj | Literally, "[blank/null marker] do [position marker] increase do." This is an example of using an adjective as the verb description, or stem, if you want to think about it like that. You don't have to add the blank marker and 'do' scribble before the adjective, but it'll definitely help in differentiating the subject from the verb's stem. Also, if you want to type the blank/null marker, you can type 'bM' in the translator. |
| To use | jj | This literally translates to "do do." I figured I'd bold it, since it kinda uses the verb maker as part of the verb. Just something to note. |
| To be able to(you can, I can, etc.) | Lj | This can be used before another verb. I wanted to show the scribble for 'yes' through this, too. The 'no' scribble is just the 'yes' scribble but upside down. This can just be used in place of the word 'can' in everyday speech. |
Yeah, that was a lot more examples than in the previous tutorials. I wanted to show all or most of the cases you can find verbs in, plus some bonus verbs to show some scribbles in action. This is probably a lot more to take in compared to the previous tutorials, so it may take a few times just looking at the verbs to make sense of them. I hope they're at least simpler than other languages and their tables of conjugations.