-galuar

Greenlandic

Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /-ɡaluar/, [-ɣə.lʊ.ɑʁ]

Suffix

-galuar (v-v^?, additive^?)

1. used concessively; although
   • 1998 September 1, “Aatsaat qaamasunik amilinnik takusut”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:

     Soorunami siornatigut aviisitigut allatigullu qaamasunik amillit qanoq isikkoqarnersut ilisimareeraluarlugit sunaaffa aatsaat iluamik inuttarsisut.

     While they had, of course, already seen people with light skin in newspapers and the like, it turned out that they had not met any in the flesh.

2. [verb]s in vain
3. marks an improbable hypothetical

Further reading

• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 115, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 135, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 136, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014