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Here and There: Place Adverbs

Alexander StebnerCreator of Lingora · Updated 14 October 20262 min readComments

The words for "here" and "there" end in -ni, like the locative "in, at": "here", "over there", "there, at that point". Related forms say "this way", "in this direction" and "from there".

01

Here

is the place where the speaker is.

  • Maani sulisuuvit?

    Do you work here?

  • Maani pujortarnak.

    Please don't smoke here.

  • Ingerlasariaqanngilanga. Maaneeqqaarsinnaavunga.

    I don't need to leave yet. I can stay longer. (maanee- "be here")

02

There

is "over there", further away; "there", in a place just mentioned; "there, at that point". With -ip- "be" they say where something is.

  • Uangaana qarasaasiara, illit qarasaasiat ikaniippoq.

    This is my computer. Your computer is over there.

  • Frankrigi nalunngilara, siornatigut taakaniippunga.

    Oh, I know France. I have been to France before. (taakani "there": in France)

  • Ajoraluartumik piffimmi tassani periarfissaqanngilanga.

    Unfortunately, I have a conflict during that time. (tassani "at that one")

03

This Way, From There

is "this way, through here", "to here, towards the speaker", and "from there".

  • Sukkut anniaravit? Ugguuna?

    Where does it hurt? Here? (ugguuna: lit. this way)

  • Pisiniarfimmut uunga iserusuppunga.

    I want to go into this shop. (uunga "to here": the shop right here)

  • Tassanngaannit saamimmut sangoriarlutit siumut pisoqqissaatit.

    Then you turn left and continue walking. (tassanngaannit: lit. from there)

04

Left, Right, Ahead

Directions take -mut "to": "to the left", "to the right", and "forward".

  • Oqaluffik tikikkukku talerpimmut sangussaatit.

    Turn right at the church.

  • Siumuinnaq ingerlassaatit illumik sungaartumik takunissat tungaanut.

    You walk straight until you see a yellow building. (siumuinnaq "just forward")

In the course

Sentences from Lingora’s Greenlandic course

12 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 22. A few of them, with the words “Here and There: Place Adverbs” is about in bold:

  • Frankrigi nalunngilara, siornatigut taakaniippunga.

    Oh, I know France. I have been to France before.

    Lesson 208

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