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Exercise 6.4A: Practise V+TAR (text) « Greenlandic for Foreigners 2 « Learn Greenlandic

Exercise 6.4A: Practise V+TAR (text)

Add the very important morpheme V+TAR to the verbs hereunder. Remember that V+TAR belongs to the group of derivatives and endings with a variable first consonant (T turns /t/ after a consonant but /s/ after a vowel). In dictionaries and word lists +TAR's meaning is often glossed as 'uses to V'. That is as mentioned a rather unprecise glossing but unfortunately we have no adequate short glossing into English. The negative translation is probably the best one: If the verb does not include +TAR it means 'to V only once' as in 1969-imi ilisimatusarfimmi taamaatippunga or 'to V always' as in arnaavunga. It would have been taamaatittarpunga had I dropped out of studying several times and it would have been arnaasarpunga if I worked as a drag queen every Saturday. Remember that +TAR is mandatory in connection with words meaning repeated time. Push to play the audio, to check your answer, to play the solution, or to reveal the solution.

Taamaatipput
Kangerlussuarmi najugaqarput
Inuusuttut ilinniarluarput
Ilinniartippassi. Ullukkut ___
Nuup eqqaaniipput
Nuussuup atuarfiani sulivoq
Kalaallit Nunaannukarput. Ukiukkut ___
Kalaallit Nunaanniippunga. Aasakkut ___
Angutit tamarmik taamaapput
siulliuvoq
Ilinniarpunga. Aasakkut ___
Tamanna akuerivaat
16-iinnarnik ukioqarput