Юрату

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“Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.”- Angelina Jolie
I've talked about love in Swahili before, but not yet about love in Chuvash! This post is going to be all about the verb юрат or yurat, to love in Chuvash. Here's how it all works.
Юрат is the root of the verb. Chuvash is a Turkic language, and thus Chuvash grammar is highly suffixing - just like Turkish.
In it's root form, the verb is also the imperative. Мана юрат! - Love me! Ð�нне юратăр! [You plural] Love your mothers! To create the infinitive, you add -ма: юратма - to love.To create a noun, you add -у: юрату - love.
While looking up suffixes however, I noticed something interesting, the -Ñ‚ itself on the end of 'юрат' is a suffix making the verb accusative, or having the meaning "to make something happen". For instance, вĕрен means to learn, Ð²Ä•Ñ€ÐµÐ½Ñ‚ means to teach; лар means to sit, ларт means to sit someone at the table, or invite someone to sit down; Ñ�авăн is to be happy, and Ñ�авăнтар is to make someone else happy.
As it turns out, юр is a verb meaning "to be in harmony, to match, to suit, to become someone, to compliment (one another), to go well", (подходить in Russian). From this verb comes the frequently-used phrase юрать meaning, ладно, OK, agreed, sounds good, all right. Love in Chuvash, however, takes this feeling one step further. Love isn't just about finding your �путник, your partner and having everything go just great. Love is a constant action of making sure that that feeling happens. It's about taking care of the relationship, and of the person you love, and assuring that everything is in order, everything is in harmony and everyone is taken care of. It's all right there in the verb, so you can't forget :)