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-riar-: Go and Do, First … Then

Alexander StebnerCreator of Lingora · Updated 14 October 20262 min readComments

-riar-, after some stems -giar-, has three uses, depending on the ending that follows it.

01

Go and Do

In a command or with the future, it means "go and do".

  • Aap! Nalugiarta.

    Yes! Let's go swimming. (nalu- "swim" + -giar- + -ta "let's")

  • Isiginnaartitsisarfimmi isiginnaariassaanga.

    I will go see a theater play.

02

First …, Then …

In the contemporative, it says that one thing is done first and the next follows.

  • Uffaqqaariarlunga uffarfik salissavara.

    First, I'll take a shower. Then I'll clean the shower.

  • Tassanngaannit saamimmut sangoriarlutit siumut pisoqqissaatit.

    Then you turn left and continue walking. (lit. having turned left, you will walk on)

03

As Soon As

With the "because, when" endings, it means "as soon as".

  • Aneriarmat iserpunga.

    As soon as he went out, I went in.

In the course

Sentences from Lingora’s Greenlandic course

9 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 124. A few of them, with the words “-riar-: Go and Do, First … Then” is about in bold:

  • Septembarimi koncerteriarnissamut bilitsissaqarpunga.

    I have tickets for a concert in September.

    Lesson 398

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