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The independent particles may be divided into: (1) those for 

 time, f. i. ipagssaq yesterday, (2) having the character of adverbs or 

 conjunctions, f. i. agsut very, (3) mostly resembhng interjections, f. i. 

 sunauvfa only think ! âp yes. 



As for the rest, and especially wilh regard to the other dialects, 

 the words of this class will more appropriately be treated of in the 

 glossary. 



Syntax. 



Trying to discern the differences whicli may prevail between the 

 dialects concerning the syntax , at present of course is a matter out 

 of question. But also in this section of the grammar the peculiar 

 organisation of the language is so strikingly manifested, that we can 

 not wholly omit mentioning it here, by a few remarks taken from 

 the Greenlandish grammar. 



A verb certainly by aid of the suffixes makes a sentence by 

 itself, but even if the subject and the object are expressed by part- 

 icular nouns the verb nevertheless vnust indicate both by suffixes, 

 f. i. tahuvâ he saw it, inûp igdlo takuvâ the man ('s) — the house — 

 he saw it, i. e. the man saw the house. 



The use of the e- suffix and the e-form in general is already 

 mentioned. When the verbal participle is subordinate to a main verb, 

 the sentence generally refers to three diflerent personalilies : (1) Ihe 

 subject of the main verb , (2) its object which at the same time is 

 the subject of Ihe participle, (3) the object of the participle. If now 

 two of these are identical, it depends on the sense, how Ihe e-suffix 

 and Ihe e-form of Ihe verb have to be applited. Examples are: 

 oqauîigingilâ pigingne he did not say that he (himself) possessed il, 

 whereas pigigâ would indicate: that he (another) possessed it. — 

 kivfane oqautiga sorâerulâne literally: his (own) servant, liim he men- 

 tioned, him who abandoned him, i. e. he said that his servant had 

 abandoned him, whereas soråemUne would signify: that he had aban- 

 doned his servant. 



The conjunclive corresponds to sentences wilh «wlien, as, 

 because», the subjunctive to Ihem wilh: «if, when, supposed». The 

 a-form is used when the connected sentences have a different, the 

 e-form when Ihey have the same subject. The composed e-suffixes 

 of both moods are used almost in the same way as Ihose of the 

 participle. The infinitive corresponds almost as much to the pari- 



