Examples
Meaning
while Patient Vb'ed
Notes
With positive contemporative endings. See the AITWG, chapter 10 for an in-depth description of this construction.
| Kalaallisut | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| qaqqamiitillunga siallilerpoq | while I was out in the mountains, it started raining. | From qaqqami, 'in the mountain(s)', in the locative case. The case ending is verbalised with LOC{ət}V. Notice that the final /t/ is deleted by V{tət}V, thus also illustrating that this affix indeed may be truncative on t-stems. The ending is contemporative any/1sg V{(l)luŋa}, thus having I as object, even though I is the subject in the corresponding translation. |
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