Oooh? What's the thing?

there's this thing called "ledsagemåde" case ("contemporative/infinitivus/applicatus/gerundium" case) which had a complicated explanation, it was something like "active participle OR 'for someone/something' OR 'in parts' OR..."

i figured out, or at least i think i've figured out, that actually it's just 2 words put together: the normal word "and" paired with the normal "location/time" case and possibly a personal ending. i have to learn more greenlandic and test it on more sentences but the one i saw was this:

Hans'i allap'po'q Piitar'li atuar'luni (=luni being the case i'm talking about)
= Hans(i) write-verb-it Piita(q)-but read-(ledsagemåde)
= Hans writes/is writing but Piitaq reads/is reading

But:
lu = and (=automatically pointing to that we're talking about more than 1 thing)
ni = 1. locations/times, 2. its own

So theoretically:
"Hans writes but (also/and) Piitaq's (situation/status is) reading"

Qasu'llu'nga angerlar'pu'nga
"tire-(ledsagemåde-I) return-verb-I
"tiring, I went home"

here we have "lu (and) + nga (I)". "Tired and I, I went home".

(Ua)nga qimm'eq taku'llugu-lu qimaa'vu'nga
I dog view-(ledsagemåde-it)-and ran-away-verb-I
"I, seeing it the dog, and I ran away" = as soon as I saw the dog I ran away

I have to think / research about this more, and it's hard to describe in english but it makes sense to me anyway, it feels like just a small jump from "I and-that-situation" to "I -ing". the problem is not all the forms match up and stuff, but i think it clearly has this same "lu = and" in it, so i want to figure out what is it really... i have to keep learning and find more example sentences with translations and stuff.

speaking of, if you ever want to get me a present, go find harry potter in greenlandic OTL. people have it but they're like 15-year-olds who want to collect "every HP language ever" and it just sits on their bookshelves collecting dust. i just want to try reading it, i in no way need to own it, so if i can OCR someone's copy of the book for example...

Haha--I'll keep that in mind! (I've actually got the first Harry Potter book in Latin, though I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Sticking with Livy for now :P)

Hmm, I see! I'm not entirely sure I understand everything there (that kind of thing is always easier when you're seeing lots of examples in context), but it's always really great when you just understand something that had you really stuck and you just make this leap forward and your understanding of language. You know? Like usually learning languages is kind of a gradual climb, but sometimes you plateau and sometimes you spike! ^_^ That's happened to me in Turkish a few times, though I don't think it was anything as big as this. Anyway I'm really happy for you!

I've had a lot of big things like this, for the most part it's happened with Japanese grammar but it's also happened with Icelandic/Faroese grammar. For me it's entirely because I learned Esperanto though, now languages act completely different in my brain and it's a lot easier to see the patterns or real meanings of words. I reaaaally wish I'd've learnt Esperanto as my first foreign language, it would've saved me sooo much time and I wouldn't have failed my Icelandic classes and stuff like that...

Mmm, Yeah. Well, at least you can pass on your wisdom! :)

I don't think that ever happened to me with Latin, really, it's too...jigsawy, sort of? Lots of little pieces are fitting together. And related to languages I know, of course.