-sima

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sima"

Greenlandic

Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /-sima/, [-sy.mə]

Suffix

-sima (v-v^?, additive^?)

1. Denotes perfective aspect, completed action.
   • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:

     Michael Treen oqaluttuarpoq Ammassalik toqqarneqarsimasoq pissusiata sikuijuitsumut^{[sic – meaning sikuiuitsumut]} kujallermut eqqaanarnera pissutigalugu.

     Michael Treen relates that Ammassalik was chosen because of the similarity of its nature to that of the Antarctic Ocean ["the Southern ice-sea"].

   • 1992, Erik Münster (quoting anonymous), "Kinguaassiuutikkut nappaataava", Atuagagdliutit

     Pasipiluppara kinguaassiuutitigut nappaat herpes pineqarsoralugu, tassami pineqartumut receptimi allassimammat tarnut Zovirax.

     I strongly suspect that the person in question has the venereal disease of herpes, for a prescription for Zovirax cream was written to the person in question.

   • 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], ...

   • 1992 August 21, “Usuni kipigaa”, in Atuagagdliutit, page 11:

     Qanittukkut aviisini eqqartorneqarpoq qallunaap usuni kipisimagaa nuliama itigartitsiuarnera naalliuutigingaaramiuk.

     Recently, there was a story in the papers about a Dane who cut off his penis because he was very pained by his wife's persistent rejections.

   • 1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten:

     Ernerput anguteqatiminoortartunngorsimavoq (19-inik ukioqarluni paasineqarpoq), niviarsiararlu nukarleq arnaqatiminoortartunngorsimalluni.

     Our son has become gay (it was discovered when he was 19 years old), and the youngest girl has become a lesbian.

2. Denotes that the speaker is certain of something, without having personally experienced it.

Further reading

• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 126, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 130, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
• Bjørnum, S.: Grønlandsk grammatik, p. 260-261. Atuagkat 2003.