THE SUBJECT OF THE VERB
In English, we often use pronouns to tell us who we are talking about in a sentence:
| I ate. |
Who are you? |
He left yesterday. |
In Inuktitut, we indicate who we are talking about by using an affix that appears (usually) at the very end of the word:
To make pronunciation easier, when -junga is added to a stem ending in a consonant, the j changes to t:
Here is a list of the verb endings that indicate who the subject is:
| nirijunga |
I eat |
| nirijutit |
you eat |
| nirijuq |
he / she eats |
| nirijuguk |
the two of us eat |
| nirijugut |
we (three or more) eat |
| nirijusik |
you two eat |
| nirijusi |
you (three or more) eat
|
| nirijuuk |
the two of them eat |
| nirijut |
they (three or more) eat |
Rembember: the
j of all of these endings changes to
t when they are added to a root that ends in a consonant.