-mi: What About? Then — Greenlandic Grammar

-mi, attached to a word, asks "what about …?". In a question it can also add "then". A final consonant of the word becomes m: "you" gives "what about you?".

What About …?

Totusind tomi inunngorpoq. Unami?
He was born in two thousand two. What about her? (una + -mi)
Ukumi qanoq akeqarpat?
And how much do these cost? (uku + -mi)
Unami atequt? Torragaajuk?
What about this skirt? Do you like it?

Then

Naammi puugutara?
Where is my plate? (naak "where is it" + -mi: lit. where is it, then?)
Aqagumi sila qanoq issava?
What's the weather forecast for tomorrow? (aqagu "tomorrow" + -mi)

In the course

Sentences from Lingora’s Greenlandic course

11 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 83. A few of them, with the words “-mi: What About? Then” is about in bold:

Naammi panipput? - Atuarfimmiippoq.
Where is our daughter? - She's at school.
Lesson 242

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