Going Somewhere: -mukar-, -liar-, -moor-, -nngar- — Greenlandic Grammar

Several suffixes build the place into a verb of going, so that "go to the shop" is a single word.

-mukar-: Go To

-mukar- "go to" works like the ending -mut "to" turned into a verb. On a word with an owner ending it becomes -nukar-, just as -mut becomes -nut.

Pisiniarfissuarmukarpunga.
I went to the shopping mall. (pisiniarfissuaq + -mukar-)
Kiaguppunga. Sissamukarta?
I'm hot. Let's go to the beach.
Illoqarfiup qeqqanukarniaruma aqqutissara nassuiarsinnaaviuk?
Can you tell me how to get to the city center? (qeqqa "its middle" + -nukar-)

-liar-: Go To

-liar- also means "go to". The last consonant of the place drops before it.

Pisiniarfissualiartariaqarpunga.
I need to go to the supermarket.
Pisiniarfilialaarit, manniit aqqaneq marluk pisiarissavatit.
Please go to the store and buy a dozen eggs. (pisiniarfik + -lia-)

Where To?

A fourth suffix, -nngar- "be on the way to", goes on sumut "where to" to ask where someone is going.

Sumunngalerpit?
Where are you going? (sumut + -nngar- "be on the way to" + -ler-)

-moor-: Towards

-moor- "towards, heading for" gives words such as "the one meant for you".

Manniit aqqaneq marluk pisiaraakka, sukkulaatiminerlu ilinnoortoq.
I bought a dozen eggs and a candy bar for you too.

In the course

Sentences from Lingora’s Greenlandic course

11 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 41. A few of them, with the words “Going Somewhere: -mukar-, -liar-, -moor-, -nngar-” is about in bold:

Manniit aqqaneq marluk pisiaraakka, sukkulaatiminerlu ilinnoortoq.
I bought a dozen eggs and a candy bar for you too.
Lesson 47
Pisiniarfissuarmukarpunga.
I went to the shopping mall.
Lesson 172

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