Have you ever translated to Greenlandic and couldn’t find the exact term you were looking for in Greenlandic? Here is a guide to effective strategies to find Greenlandic terms on Google when searching for bilingual results mainly in translation from Danish to Greenlandic.
Why Greenlandic Terms Are Hard to Find
The Greenlandic language is polysynthetic. It contains many concrete nouns, meaning words for things that can be seen, touched, or heard. Because of this structure, finding the exact term in Greenlandic is not always easy. This is especially true in academic fields. Philosophy terms? Political terms? Even expressions like international relations or supercalifragilisticexpialidocious can be difficult to locate in the Danish–Greenlandic lexicon.
A Simple Strategy to Locate Greenlandic Translations
Luckily, there is a simple trick. If you are here because you could not find a Greenlandic or Kalaallisut equivalent for a specific term, you are in the right place. You are also in the right place if you want to learn more about the Greenlandic translation field. This is where AI translation tools become useful. As explained in “AI Translation: 5 Reasons to Use the OpenAI Chatbot” advanced language models can suggest terms and provide context. They help you fill gaps where dictionaries fail. These tools are especially effective when you need strategies to find Greenlandic terms that are rarely documented.
This method does not always give the perfect result. However, it works very well when someone has already translated the term you need. I often use it for bilingual media searches. For Greenlandic translation work, Google’s Advanced Settings is one of the best tools available. Maybe you already know how to use it. If not, here is a short guide:
- Go to google.com.
- Click Settings at the bottom right.
- Choose Advanced search.
- Under Find pages with…, enter the word you want to search.
- Under Then narrow your results by…, set the region to Greenland.
- Click Advanced Search.
And that’s it. You now know how to use one of the most important tools for terminology research in Greenlandic. Many Greenlandic texts news articles, laws, job postings, and press releases are published in both Danish and Greenlandic. This makes it easy to compare versions. When you open a page, you can scan for the term by pressing Control + F. This simple method is one of the most effective strategies to find Greenlandic terms in real texts.
One last tip: some Greenlandic news agencies do not use a Greenlandic domain. Because of this, they may not appear in region-limited searches. You can visit their websites directly and use their internal search tool. And as discussions like “Will Machine Translation Replace Human Translators?” remind us, machine translation is helpful, but human expertise remains essential for a nuanced language like Greenlandic.
