Greenlandic Grammar

The Greenlandic grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Greenlandic and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: aamma	Under: malillugu
Before: itsaligami	After: annguppoq
Inside: -ut	Outside: kinnga
With: -mik, -nik	But: kisianni
For: ilupaqut	From: -mit, -nit
To: -kkut, -tigut	In: -mi, -ni

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: suna?	Who?: kikkut?
How?: qanoq?	Why?: sooq?
Where?: sumi?

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: nikuu	Rarely: akuttusuumik
Sometimes: ilaanni	Usually: pisarnertut
Always: tamatigut	Very: assut

Most commonly used pronouns in Greenlandic:

I: uanga	You: illit
He: una	She: una
We: uagut	They: uku

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: -ra	Your: -ut
His: -a	Her: -a
Our: -rput	Their: -at

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: Tuluttut oqalussinnaavunga

You speak French: Franskisut oqalussinnaavutit

He speaks German: Tyskisut oqalussinnaavoq

She speaks Italian: Italiamiutut oqalussinnaavoq

I visited France: Frankrigimiippunga

I will drink milk: Immummik imerumavunga

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: Paasingilara

I don't understand you: Paasinngilara

I don't speak French: Franskisut oqaluttanngilanga

This is my house: Tassa illora

That restaurant is far: Neriniartarfik taanna ungaseqaaq

No problem: ajunngilaq

The above Greenlandic grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Greenlandic vocabulary to obtain some popular Greenlandic phrases.