-junnaar-: No Longer — Greenlandic Grammar

-junnaar- "no longer, not any more" goes before the ending. After i it is -unnaar-, after r -runnaar-, and after another consonant -kkunnaar-: "eats" gives "is done eating".

Aspirinimik tunissavakkit niaqorlukkunnaarniassagavit.
I will give you an aspirin for your headache. (niaqorlup- "have a headache" + -kkunnaar-: lit. so that your headache stops)

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