Cherokee is technically classified as a polysynthetic language, meaning each word is made of smaller parts called morphemes. In English there is one meaningful part, one singular word, depicting the action or state of being, such as sing or walk. One single word in Cherokee can tell you a whole sentence: the subject, the verb, the time the action took place, and sometimes even more information. All this information is contained in the affixes that can attach to a single verb. Hence, making the Cherokee verb complex.