Description:

The term 'pex' is one of the general words for knowing and knowledge.

This is an area where English speakers have a lot of trouble. For one thing, Common has a similar divide to French, German and Spanish with two basic words for knowing, one for knowing information and the other for being familiar with a person or thing. The term 'pex' is in the former category, it means to know a fact. The other sense, familiarity, is covered by the verb 'sifre'. As well, as a verb, pex has a backwards thematic structure to English - it means more like 'to be known to', than to 'to know'.

Noun:

As a noun, 'pex' means 'knowledge'. The idea of 'knowledge of someting' can be expressed by modifying it with an expressionintroduced by the null preposition 'y'. It can be abstractified to knowledged in general rather than knowledge of a specific thing by expressing it as 'pexysyn', although 'pex' alone might be used with this meaning.

Verb:

As a verb, 'pex' means to know some information. It has a strange thematic structure, from the point of view of English. It means something more like 'to be known to'. Think of it like the information itself being the agent that causes the knower, the patient, to have the knowledge.

Pex is a transitive skurun verb. It takes an ergative subject which is the information that is known, and an absolutive object, which is the knower of the information. Because the knower is often the topic of the sentence, it is very common for sentences with 'pex' to have OVS or OSV word order. Often the subject is a dependent clause describing the information that is known, introduced with 'xi'. Example:

A pocuk teo pex xi ja pikki a skitrem teno slek.
The(ABS) child hit(P.IM) know that(ERG) the(ERG) cat the(ABS) mouse hit(P.PF) eat.

'The child knew that the cat ate the mouse.'

Modifier:

'Pex' is most often used as a modifier using its thematic derivatives 'pexcas' and 'pexkas', appromixately 'known' and 'knowingly'.