When in doubt, add a -dir

The Azerbaijani language is a language of suffixes. When you conjugate a verb, you add a suffix; when you demonstrate location, you add a suffix; when you make something plural, or possessive, or negative, you add a suffix. This can lead to some unwieldy word creation for the novice speaker and a scrabble player's wet dream. For example, the root word for behind is 'arxa' but if you were to use this word in the sentence 'the chair is behind the desk' the word becomes 'arxasindadir' which is a full 3x, or eight letters, longer than the original. Sweet.

This is a pain when writing, but especially annoying when you're speaking, and forced to create this new word on the spot. As a mnemonic device, my language group has come up with the rule 'when in doubt add -dir' which works with surprising accuracy. -Dir is the suffix you add to a word with an i, e, or upside down e to give the statement an 'is' in the third person (he is going to the store). When we've made a statement and our teacher is waiting on us as if we didn't make a statement (because we didn't..) we've found that adding a -dir to what we said gets it right about 100% of the time.