This includes expressing actions in specific verbs to make sentences clear.

Sometimes children use a highly specific verb instead of a general purpose verb.

A definite noun, in contrast, requires the use of a specific verb when it is the object of a verb.

The subject of a specific verb requires a specific suffix to indicate its syntactic role:

The subject of a specific verb takes the following suffixes, depending on its grammatical number:

The object of a specific verb needs no particular suffix at all.

Some verbs are automatically both specific and non-specific verbs, depending only on which suffixes they receive.

In Inuktitut, this situation is expressed by using a specific verb but by affixing a non-specific ending to it.

There is no specific verb with this meaning in these languages.

There is one exception for sound, for example: there's a specific verb for calling a pig.