Exercise 7.1: Practise the interrogative dummy su-

Remember su- from chapter 5? su- is almost impossible to translate into idiomatic English because su- does not really mean anything. It is an interrogative dummy we use whenever we need to form questions about semantics contained in morphemes and endings as opposed to meaning contained in stems. In chapter 6 you met the sentence .. nalullugu suniarnerlunga ('not knowing what I wanted'). In the relative clause all meaning is contained in the morphemes +NIAR+NIR. That is a typical way to use su-. Translate the questions and negations hereunder. You need to use su- plus an ending and sometimes also a morphme. Push to play the audio, to check your answer, to play the solution, or to reveal the solution.

There is nothing!
Do you want a boy or a girl? (Use su+TAAR to expectant parents.)
What is your relation to him?
I have nothing
What way?
What kind of work does he do in Greenland?
What does he do?
What will I work with?
What will they do in Denmark?
What does she normally do?
What do you have?
What on earth does he do? (Use su+TUQ plus clitic UNA as exclamation)
Where is he now?
There is nothing
I do not want anything
What will you do with that?
To where?
I shall not do anything
The most what?
What has he begun to?
They do not do the least
We will do nothing!
Where?
What do you do?
Where do I go?
Was it a boy or a girl? (Use su+TAAR to a new parent.)
As what?
What shall we do?
What became of him?
What does she want?