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iciple as to the infinitive of other languages and has a multifarious 

 application. 



The verb it is of other languages is rendered by affixes: 

 uvoq is , and -rd has it for , f. i. ndlagauvoq he is a chief, 

 ndlagard he has him for his chief, il is his ch. 



Finally the arrangement of words is of great importance, while 

 at the same the a- and e-sufixes and forms admit of several sen- 

 tences being combined in a very compendious form and crossing 

 each other without losing the necessary distinctness. Kleinschmidt 

 in his grammar gives the following examples of what a careful use 

 of these means in a few words is able to express. Certainly they 

 are so complicated, that in daily speech they could hardly ever occur, 

 but still they are correct and can be understood by intelligent people. 

 The examples show about the same words in two combinations. 



(1) suerakame autdldsassoq tusaramiuk tuningingmago iluaringildt 

 they did not approve, that he (a) had omitted to give him (b) some- 

 thing, as he (a) heard, that he (b) was going to depart on account 

 of being destitute of everything. 



This is composed of 4 sentences: 



suertikame autdldsavoq when he was destitute of everything he 

 would depart. 



autddsassoq tusarpd him who would depart he had heard of. 



tusaramiuk tuningild as he had heard of him , he did not give 

 him anything. 



tuningingmago iluaringildt as he gave him nothing they disapproved 

 of him. 



(2) ivna autdlarloq suerakame autdldsassoq ningavata tusaramiuk, 

 unigtikumavdlugo ajorssautainik tuningingmago nunaqataisa iluaringildt 

 literally : him yonder who has departed as he was destitute of 

 everything who was going to depart his brother in law 

 as he heard of him intending to cause him to remain with 

 his necessaries as he did not present him his countrymen 

 disapproved of him viz: as the brother in law of him yonder who 

 departed on account of want, had heard that he intended to remove 

 and (nevertheless) did not assist him with anything that he wanted, 

 in order to make him remain , his countrymen disapproved of his 

 conduct. 



