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-vik: Place For, Time For

Alexander StebnerCreator of Lingora · Updated 14 October 20262 min readComments

-vik turns a verb into the place where it happens, or the time for it: "reads, goes to school" gives "school". After a vowel the suffix is -vik. After r it is -fik. Any other last consonant becomes f as well: "sleeps" gives "bed".

  • Tuniniaavimmiippunga, ulapeqaaq.

    I am at the market. It is very busy. (tuniniaa- "sell" + -vik: lit. selling place)

  • Neriniartarfik qimuttuitsoqarfiup qaavaniippoq.

    The restaurant is above the train station. (neriniartar- "go out to eat" + -fik)

  • Qalipaatiliorfimmi sulisuuvunga. Suliassaq sakkortuvoq.

    I work at a paint factory. It's hard work. (qalipaat "paint" + -lior- "make" + -fik)

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Time For

-vik can also name the time for something: nalliup- "come round (of a day)" gives "day of celebration".

  • Ullumikkut Maajip siulliat. Ulloq nalliuffik.

    Today is the first of May. It's a public holiday. (-fik: the time for it)

In the course

Sentences from Lingora’s Greenlandic course

9 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 249. A few of them, with the words “-vik: Place For, Time For” is about in bold:

  • Tuniniaavimmiippunga, ulapeqaaq.

    I am at the market. It is very busy.

    Lesson 249

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