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Seeming: -palup- and -pasip-

Alexander StebnerCreator of Lingora · Updated 14 October 20262 min readComments

Two suffixes say how something seems: -palup- "sounds like, seems" and -pasip- "looks like, seems". After a vowel an r comes in, and an i or u before it becomes e or o: "is tired" gives "they look tired".

  • Pikkunaappaluppoq. Aqagu filmeriarta.

    That sounds boring. Let's see a movie tomorrow. (pikkunaappoq "is boring" + -palup-)

  • Nasaq atissanngilat. Eqqumiippasippoq.

    Don't wear that hat. It looks weird. (eqqumiippoq "is strange" + -pasip-)

In the course

Sentences from Lingora’s Greenlandic course

3 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 373. A few of them, with the words “Seeming: -palup- and -pasip-” is about in bold:

  • Illup silataani timmissat qarlorpalupput.

    The birds are singing in the garden.

    Lesson 489

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