-uminaap-: Hard To Do — Greenlandic Grammar

-uminaap- "be hard to do" goes on a verb, and the thing that is hard to deal with is the subject: ammar- "open" gives ammaruminaap- "be hard to open".

Una ammarsinnaaviuk? Ammaruminaappoq.
Can you open this bottle? It is difficult to open.

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