Today's X-exercises are pretty much like the ones you worked with in the preceding chapters with a lexical growth of about 20 stems, 6 derivational morphemes and the 10 inflectional endings from lesson II-2 the sentences of course cover quite a bit of news for you to acquire.
On top of the new lexical material I included two particles just to get some variation into the SSA-exercises
NIQ means 'the being og doing what is mentioned in the verbal stem'. So suli+NIQ = sulineq = the thing to 'suli'/ a work. And here is an example to illustrate how extremely productive NIQ is. It can be added to basically whatever: ilinniar+GUSUP+NNGIT+NIQ+1SgPoss = ilinniarusunnginnera = my not wanting to study. NIQ is sometimes termed the abstract noun.
NIQ is extremely frequent. In running text you will find NIQ in about every 15th word you meet. Among much else NIQ is also a normal way to build new terminology. In today's text we found 'oqaasileri+NIQ = the thing to deal with language = linguistics', and you could after today's lesson generate the proper term for 'computer science (qarasaasiaq-LIRI+NIQ = qarasaasialerineq). But there is so much more you can do with NIQ especially once you learn to add morphemes about the future and possessum endings. Here we have a few examples
asa+HTR+NIQ+1PlPoss = asanninnerput (our love)
GL541 Nuuliartussap aallarnissaa kinguartinneqarpoq = Departure GL541 to Nuuk is delayed (aallar+NIQ+SSAQ+3SgPoss = its_future_the_thing_to_depart)
Means literally 'one having N' for instance nulialik = one having a wife; meerarpassualik = one having many children. Beware of an often heard mistake: LIK is not a grammatical ending. LIK is a derivational morpheme that creates a new nominal stem. This new stem must like all other nominal stems get inflectional endings in acordance with context.
Therefore meerarpassualik must have inflection for instrumental case if I want to express 'I have a wife with many children' = meerarpassualimmik nuliaqarpunga' and for case terminalis if I want to express 'I travelled to a woman with many children = Arnamut meerarpassualimmut aallarpunga.
Also another phenomenon makes N-LIK a special case, namely that N-LIK (as does N-QAR) adds its "adjectives" (generally instrumental case) to the inderivated/ incorporated N. So should I want to say that the nuliaq inderivated in the wordform nulialiuvoq (he is one with a wife) is pikkorissoq you must say Pikkorissumik nulialiuvoq = 'He is one havinga skilled_wife'. pikkorissoq must be instrumental case because it links to nuliaq inderived in the word nulialiuvoq (nuliaq-LIK-U+{vu}{q}
As you can see it is N-LIK almost equivalent with and behaves almost like N-QAR nominalized with V+TUQ to N-QAR+TUQ
In lesson II-2 you were introduced to the 'part-of-something' concept with a single example in the text, namely ilinniarnertuunngorniarfiit ilaanni (at one of the high schools).
Getting the skill to handle ila used as such normally takes a bit of practice so here we walk through a few translations that hopefully help you understand the constrution.
As stated in the text is ila a straight-forward noun meaning 'a partner/ mate/ buddy/ etc.'. The stem is part of very many frequent wordforms like ila+QAR (fx ilaqarpunga = I am not alone/ I have a buddy) and many more you gradually will see in the chapters to come. But besides being a normal noun it is ila plus possessum that form the super frequent "part of something" constructions.
(arnaq Rel Pl) (ila Abs Sg 3PlPoss) => arnaq{-t} ila{-at} => arnat ilaat ('the_women's their_one_ila' that is 'one of the women')
(arnaq Rel Pl) (ila Trm Sg 3PlPoss) => arnaq{-t} ila{-at}{+nut} => arnat ilaannut (the_women's to_their_one_ila that is 'to one of the women')
Now try yourself to produce the following words for an initial test whether you really understood the construction. Preferably you do so in your study group. The answers are in the footnote
.. but then you should give the assignment your full attention.
Hereunder you get a sentence taken randomly (from Sørine Steenholdt Zombiet Nunaat):
Arfininngornerup unnuaani toqutsisoqarsimavoq. Angut 39-nik ukiulik arnamit 34-nik ukiulimmit savimmik kapineqarluni toqunneqartoq. Paasisaqarnerorusullunga atuagassiaq toorpara atualerlugulu.
It is a normal sentence in Greenlandic with the level of complexity one normally finds in Greenlandic text. Still, with your present linguistic understanding you can handle everything in the sentence provided you get a little help with a few lookups from the dictionary. And this gives you the chance to see some comparatively new items like N-LIK, contemporative mood and the participle in real life language. Go for it! And make sure to check your understanding with your study pals!