The Week of Exercises! (Passive) Posted by Meg on Sep 22, 2017 in Icelandic grammar
Today I’m going to share a few practices with you for the passive voice, which we went over in July. I hope you find these helpful. I’ll post additional exercises over the next week, for you to get used to the passive before we finish the topic up.
Also, as a note: I’ve been having trouble keeping up with things lately, and I want to apologize for the sparse pages of my blog. I’ve received kind emails and comments from a number of you – and I want to thank for your that. The next few entries, I’m going to spend on exercises as a follow-up to July’s entries on passive voice. Then I want to wrap up passive voice (we still haven’t talked about modeling it using -st verbs).
Here are the blogs I’m referring to:
JUST THE BASICS
*For the record, these are not exercises of my own making: they are pulled from one of my Icelandic language books.
Like so:
X borðar allt brauðið = allt brauðið er borðað
X sagði söguna í gær = Sagan var sögð í gær
- X leyfir ekki reykingar
- X ræðir málið
- X veiðir laxinn í net
- X sendir bréfin í pósti
- X skreytir húsið fyrir jólin
- X notar bækurnar til gjafa
- X grunar hana um lygi
- X sýnir myndirnar í listasafninu
- X flengir börnin ef þau láta illa
- X þynnir súpuna með vatni
Don’t forget to use BIN if you need to: http://bin.arnastofnun.is/forsida/
And another useful tool is: http://malid.is. There, you can access a number of different dictionaries and resources – including monolingual dictionaries to some extent, etymology, and declension machines.
And once you’ve completed them, here are the answers:
Open Me
(1) Reykingar eru ekki leyfðar
(2) Málið er rætt.
(3) Laxinn er veiddur í net
(4) Bréfin er send í pósti
(5) Húsið er skreytt fyrir jólin
(6) Bækurnar voru notaðar til gjafa
(7) Hún er grunuð um lygi
(8) Myndirnar eru sýndar í listasafninu
(9) Börnin eru flengd ef þau láta illa
(10) Súpan er þýnnt með vatni
A LITTLE MORE COMPLEXITY
X tamdi hestana = Hestarnir voru tamdir
X samdi söguna á síðasta ári = Sagan var samin á síðasta ári.
- X vekur Steinu klukkan sjö á hverjum morgni
- X lemur hundinn
- X semur mörg lög á ári
- X temur ljónið
- X velur alltaf besta bitann fyrst
- X telur peningana tvisvar
- X skildi krakkana eftir á leikvellinum
Answer key:
Answer Key
(1) Steina er vakin klukkan sjö á hverjum morgni
(2) Hundurinn er laminn
(3) Mörg lög eru samin á ári
(4) Ljónið er tamið
(5) Besti bitinn er alltaf valinn fyrst
(6) Peningarnir eru taldi tvisvar
(7) Krakkarnir voru skildir eftir á leikvellinum
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Comments:
helen Col:
I am finally getting round to this today… I’m really happy to get on with your help. May I share my latest discovery, I don’t know how I didn’t find it before. It’s a monolingual Icelandic dictionary online that gives pronunciation, definitions and examples of how to use words in sentences. There is also a link to BIN for declension/conjugation. http://kata.arnastofnun.is/islob (Íslensk nútímamálsorðabók). Now for the exercises. 🙂
helen Col:
Hello. Having done the first exercise I don’t understand why the present tense of ‘be’ (vera) changes to the past . We are changing from active voice to passive, but do we need to change the tense too? Thank you for any explanation. 🙂
Meg:
@helen Col Hi Helen! Thanks for the note. It is not necessary to change the tense to past; that was my mind changing the sentences from present to past. The answers should be in present tense unless the verb indicates otherwise.
helen Col:
OK Meg, thank you. 🙂