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THE IMPERATIVE
The imperative is used to tell someone to do something, or indicate something that you would like to happen.
-git is used when you are speaking to one other person:| niri- | nirigit |
| to eat |
Eat! |
| qai- | qaigit |
| to come |
Come here! |
If -git is added to a root ending in a q, the q is dropped and the affix -rit is used:
| uqalimaaq- | uqalimaarit |
| to read |
Read! |
When telling someone to do something, there is often an object involved. In which, case we use different endings:
| tuni- | tuniguk |
| to bring |
bring it here! |
| tigu - | tiguguk! |
| to take |
take it! |
The endings above are fairly straightforward when talking to one person and when dealing with a single object.
What if we want to ask more than one person to do something?
| qaigit | Come here (speaking to 1 person) |
| qaigitsik |
Come here (speaking to 2 people) |
| qaigitsi |
Come here (speaking to 3 or more people) |
But then, you have already seen these endings, way back in lesson 1:
| tunngasugit | Welcome! (to 1 person) |
| tunngasugitsik | Welcome! (to 2 people) |
| tunngasugitsi | Welcome! (to 3 people) |
Remember the alternate ending when dealing with roots that end in q, like isiq-
| isirit | Come in (to 1 person) |
| isiritsik | Come in (to 2 people) |
| isiritsi |
Come in (to 3 or more people) |
and if we want to include one or more objects….
(speaking to one person)
| qaiguk | Bring it here. |
| qaikkik | Bring the two of them here. |
| qaikkit | Bring them here. |
THE AFFIX -MIIT
-miit is a verb meaning "to be somewhere".
| illumiittuq | She is in the house. |
| Jalunaimiittugut | We all are in Yellowknfie. |
In the South Qikiqtaaluk dialect -miit deletes any consonant that appears immediately before it:
| sirluaq+miit + tut = | sirluamiittut | They are in the shed. |
| pulaarvik + miit + tuuk= | pulaarvimiittuuk | The two of them are in the living room. |
-miit also shows up in questions:
| Namiippit? | Namiippa? |
| Where are you? | Where is it; Where is he/she? |