-ner

Possibly from a reanalysis of agentive -er in derivations with other affixes, such as in Redner.

• IPA^(key): [nɐ]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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-ner m (strong, genitive -ners, plural -ner)

1. Forms person nouns from verbs and other nouns, especially job titles

   ‎Hort (“daycare”) + ‎-ner → ‎(regional) Hortner (“daycare worker”)

   ‎ausbilden (“to train”) + ‎-ner → ‎(regional) Ausbildner (“instructor”)

   ‎Rente (“pension”) + ‎-ner → ‎Rentner (“pensioner”)

• Now only present in a few regularly used constructions, with many such job descriptions having fallen out of use except possibly as last names.

• “-ner”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /-nir/, [-nɜʁ]

-ner (v-v^?, additive^?)

1. (participial or contemporative) whether
   • 1998, Oqaatsinut Tapiliussaq, pages 13–14:

     Oqaatsip naggataani takuneq ajornanngilaq fælleskønniunersoq imaluunniit intetkønniunersoq: mand - manden, hus - huset (tak. qupp. 17).

     From the word's ending, you can determine whether it is common gender or neuter gender: mand - manden (man - the man), hus - huset (house - the house) (see p. 17).

2. I wonder if
   • 1992, “Usuni kipigaa”, in Atuagagdliutit:

     Nammineq tissassarluni inersinnaannginnerluni anisuualu qanoq ililluni anisassava?

     I wonder if he will be unable to stimulate himself to orgasm, and how will the semen be released?

In the "whether" sense, the contemporative and participial are used when the subjects coincide and differ, respectively.

• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 136, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 135, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
• -ner in Katersat
• Bjørnum, S.: Grønlandsk Grammatik, p. 248. 2003 Atuagkat.