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Greenlandic
Pronunciation
Suffix
-tit (v-v?, additive?)
- (on intransitive verbs) to cause to
- atuarpoq (“read”) -> atuartippaa (“teach”)
- (on transitive verbs) to cause to be ed by something else (which is placed in the allative)
- to have been ed
Usage notes
Sometimes truncative. Intransitivized by -si.
Derived terms
Further reading
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 100, 109, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
- Bjørnum, S.: Grønlandsk grammatik, pp. 74, 267-268. Atuagkat 2003.