isumaqarpoq
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isumaqarpoq
- (intransitive) thinks, believes
- 2017 July 22, Sorlannguaq Petersen, “Nunanut allanut sungiusaasoq aapakaatut isigineqartoq”, in Sermitsiaq:
- Isumaqarunillu taama iliornikkut isikkamik arsaannermik sungiusaasuujunnaassasunga, taakku kukkorujussuarput.
- And if they think that I will stop being a football trainer because of these acts, they are severely mistaken.
- 1998 May 7, “Tasiilami efterskoleqalernissaa Jakob Sivertsen-ip sulissutigaa”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:
- Jakob Sivertsen isumaqarpoq, Tasiilami efterskolep inissinnissaa pissusissamisuussasoq.
- Jakob Sivertsen believes that Tasiilaq would be a good place for an efterskole.
- 1988, “Anguteqatiminoortartoq: NIVIARSIAQQATUT PERORSAGAAVUNGA”, in Atuagagdliutit:
- Nielsi isumaqarpoq, inuusuttut angutit inuiqatigiit akornanni angajoqqaaminnillu aporfissaqartitaallutik namminneq inuttut inuuniarnerminni ajornartorsiuteqartartut mikinngitsumik.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (intransitive) is of the opinion that
- 2002, Stephen Hammeken, Harry Potter Ujarallu Inuunartoq, Nuuk: Atuakkiorfik, translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling, →ISBN, page 4:
- Aappariit erneeraqarput Dudleymik atilimmik. Aappariit isumaqarput ernertik silarsuarmi asseqanngitsoq.
- The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.
- (intransitive) mean, signify