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Lesson 9 of 10

Time and days in Greenlandic

Now, later, tomorrow, what time it opens and one moment please. Play the ten Greenlandic words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

Buildings along Myers Avenue in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
Time and days
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Vincent van Zeijst, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Greenlandic phrases in this lesson

MaannaMAHN-nah
Now
Kingusinnerusukkutkee-ngoo-sin-neh-roo-SOOK-koot
Later
UllumiOOL-loo-mee
Today
AqaguAH-kah-goo
Tomorrow
Ullumi unnukkutOOL-loo-mee oon-NOOK-koot
Tonight

Literally "today in the evening". In summer the sun never sets.

Qaqugu?KAH-koo-goo
When?

Used for the future. For the past it is "qanga?".

Qassinut ammassava?kas-SEE-noot ahm-MAS-sah-vah
What time does it open?
Utaqqilaaritoo-tak-kee-LAH-rit
One moment, please

Literally "wait a little".

Minutsitmee-NOOT-sit
Minutes

From Danish.

Nalunaaquttap akunnerinah-loo-NAH-koot-tahp ah-KOON-neh-ree
Hours

Literally "the spaces of the clock".

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