Exercise 5.2: Comparison using +NIRU (text)

Here is a row of sentences type 'something happens / someone does'. Adjust them to express the same statement at higher degree. This is the first exercise of its kind so we will just use the indicative mood as training. As a matter of facts the contemporative would have been more idiomatic in quite a number of the sentences but let us not komplicate matters more than necessarily. The sentences are all understandable in spite of the less than perfect indicative. Remember that transitive as well as intransitive statements can be put in comparative and superlative. In Greenlandic comparison is nothing but a derivational morpheme with all the normal uses as any other morpheme. Push to play the audio, to check your answer, to play the solution, or to reveal the solution.

Narsarsuaq aqqutigisarpara, Kangerlussuarli ___
2008-mi sulivunga, 2010-mili ___ (NB: Use NIRU=SSA)
Inuit ikinngutiga taasarpaat, ikinngutimali nulia ____
2008-mi sulivunga, isumaqarpungali 2010-mi ___ (NB: Use NIRU=SSA)
Ilisimatusarfimmi atuakkialerisarpunga, oqaasileri-___
Taamani asavakkit, massakkulli ____
"Rigoletto" sivikippoq, isumaqarpungali "La Traviata" ___
Aasiammiut eqqaamavakka, Qaqortormiulli ____
Ullumi meeqqat qarasaasialerisarput, taamanili atuar-___
Taanna ilinniartippara, ikinngutaali ___
Isumaqarpunga taamani nalunartoq, isumaqarpungali ullumi ____
Nuummi sulisarpunga, Finlandimili ___
Arnat qarasaasialerisarput, angutilli ___
Kalaallit ilaat qallunaatut atuartarput, ilaalli kalaallisut ____
Suli atorpoq, taamanili ___
Tasiilami Illoqqortoormiunilu inoqarpallaanngilaq, Nuummili ___
Nuummi taxartartut Skodat atorpaat, Tysklandimili Mercedesit ____
2008-mi sulivunga, 2009-mili ____