I come from Greenland. I'm a Greenlander, and I speak Greenlandic.
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Greenlander
Synonyms for "greenlander" (1 found)
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54 translations across 33 languages.
Asturian
2 entries- groenlandesa noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- groenlandés noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гренландец noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Catalan
2 entries- grenlandès noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- groenlandès noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Czech
2 entries- Gróňan noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- Gróňanka noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Danish
1 entries- grønlænder noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Dutch
2 entries- Groenlander noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- Groenlandse noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Esperanto
2 entries- groenlandanino noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- groenlandano noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Faroese
2 entries- grønlendari noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- grønlendingur noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Finnish
1 entries- grönlantilainen noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
French
2 entries- Groenlandais noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- Groenlandaise noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Galician
2 entries- grenlandesa noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- grenlandés noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
German
2 entries- Grönländer noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- Grönländerin noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Greek
3 entries- Γροιλανδέζα noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- Γροιλανδή noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- Γροιλανδός noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Greenlandic
1 entries- kalaaleq noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Hungarian
1 entries- grönlandi noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Icelandic
2 entries- Grænlendingar noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- Grænlendingur noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᐊᑯᕿᑦᑐᕐᒥᐅᑦ noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Inupiaq
1 entries- Kalaaliq noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Irish
1 entries- Graonlannach noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Italian
2 entries- groenlandese noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- groenlandesi noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Japanese
1 entries- グリーンランド人 noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Korean
1 entries- 그린란드 사람 noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- grønlender noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- grønlendar noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Polish
2 entries- Grenlandczyk noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- Grenlandka noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Portuguese
2 entries- groenlandês noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- gronelandês noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Romanian
2 entries- groenlandez noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- groenlandeză noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Russian
1 entries- гренла́ндец noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Slovak
2 entries- Grónčan noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- Grónčanka noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Spanish
2 entries- groenlandesa noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- groenlandés noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Swedish
3 entries- grönländare noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- grönländska noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- grönlänning noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Turkish
1 entries- Grönlandlı noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Welsh
2 entries- Glasynyswr noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
- Glasynyswraig noun (a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent)
Sample sentences
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1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54. Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders […] would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows.
Source: wiktionary
In a recent poll conducted by the Universities of Greenland and Copenhagen, more than two-thirds of Greenlanders expressed a desire for their country to become independent, most of them within 20 years.
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