-qqip-: Again — Greenlandic Grammar

-qqip- "again, once more" goes before the ending. Its p changes like any final consonant: it drops before many suffixes, and before -sinnaa- "can" it becomes s.

Uteqqilaarsinnaaviuk?
Could you repeat that? (ute- "return" + -qqi- + -laar-: lit. could you say it again?)
Allagaq nassiuteqqissinnaaviuk?
Can you send the message again? (-qqis- + -sinnaa-)
Ajunngilarmi. Ataasiaqqillutit pinnguarsinnaavutit.
Alright, you may play the game one more time.

Another One

With "gives", it means "give another".

Nuka, tiimik tuneqqilaannga.
Little brother, bring me another cup of tea.

Go On, Think Again

With a verb of moving or thinking, -qqip- can mean "go on" or "do it again".

Tassanngaannit saamimmut sangoriarlutit siumut pisoqqissaatit.
Then you turn left and continue walking. (pisup- "walk" + -qqi-: lit. walk on again)
Eqqarsaatigeqqillugu isumassarsiaq pitsaanngilaq.
On second thought, that is a bad idea. (lit. thinking about it again)

In the course

Sentences from Lingora’s Greenlandic course

9 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 233. A few of them, with the words “-qqip-: Again” is about in bold:

Eqqarsaatigeqqillugu isumassarsiaq pitsaanngilaq.
On second thought, that is a bad idea.
Lesson 338
Allagaq nassiuteqqissinnaaviuk?
Can you send the message again?
Lesson 426

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