-niar
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Greenlandic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Suffix[edit]
-niar (v-v?, additive?)
- tries to
- 1988, “AIDS-INFO”, in Atuagagdliutit:
- Naqitigaaqqat AIDS pillugu paasisitsiniutit Afrikami kujallermi umiarsualivinnut agguaanneqarsimapput umiartortut nappaassuarmut ulorianartumut taassumunnga mianersoqquniarlugit, ...
- Pamphlets informing about AIDS were distributed to harbours in South Africa, so as to warn sailors against this dangerous big disease [nappaassuaq "big disease" might be idiomatic], ...
- intends to
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References[edit]
- -niar in Katersat
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 102, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014 (tries to)
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 127, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014 (intends to)
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 134, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014 (modifier of imperative)
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 137, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014 (simultaneity)
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 139, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014