wanting things

i'll abbreviate pronounced to "p:"

i figured if i wanted to say 'i want to go to sleep' i could say something like:

naan thungi (p: thoongee) veenum (p: vaynoom)

literally: I sleep want

but for expressing desires, ennakku is used, not naan.

also, veenum is the desire expressing word. but i think you can only use 'veenum' with nouns, not verbs. so it's normal to say:

ennaku coffee veenum

(i want coffee)

to express 'i want to sleep', people will say:

ennakku thungi pooganum

i have no idea how poo gets conjugated into pooganum. i read the -num comes from veenum, but the g? fuck if i know, please tell me if you do.

also in all these books, they will say why / what / how are een / enna / epadi, but when people say it it sounds like there's a Y in front:

een -> yayn

enna -> yenna

epadi -> yepadi

ennaku -> yennaku