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Greenlandic
Pronunciation
Suffix
-riar (n-v?, truncative?)
- (does something) times
1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:Inuit BBC-meersut marloriarlutik Ammassalimmiissimapuut.siullermik martsimi, tassa taamani ukiup sikuani aalaakkammi filmiisoqarsimavoq.- The people from BBC have been in Ammassalik twice. The first time in March, where they filmed on winter's firm ice on the water .
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Further reading
Suffix
-riar (v-v?, truncative?)
- once, at once
- set about to
- (especially imperative) Animates speech.
- (conjunctive, conditional) as soon as
- (contemporative) Denotes that something is done first.
Further reading
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 113, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 133, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
- Bjørnum, S.: Grønlandsk grammatik, p. 258. 2003 Atuagkat.
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 139, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014