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-laar-: A Little, Please

Alexander StebnerCreator of Lingora · Updated 14 October 20262 min readComments

-laar- "a little, briefly" goes before the ending. In a command or a request it makes it softer, much like "please".

  • Igaffik alakkalaarsiuk. Assut mikivoq.

    Go and check out (pl.) the kitchen. It is so small. (-laar- + -siuk "you all … it")

  • Taratsut isaatilaakkit.

    Could you pass me the salt? (-laa- + -kkit "you … them")

  • Tuaviorlutit aggilaarit.

    Please come as quickly as possible.

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In Questions

In a question with -sinnaa- "can", -laar- makes a polite "could you …?" or "could I …?".

  • Menu takulaarsinnaavara?

    Could I see a menu, please?

  • Uteqqilaarsinnaaviuk?

    Could you repeat that?

In the course

Sentences from Lingora’s Greenlandic course

12 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 46. A few of them, with the words “-laar-: A Little, Please” is about in bold:

  • Igaffik alakkalaarsiuk. Assut mikivoq.

    Go and check out (pl.) the kitchen. It is so small.

    Lesson 322

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