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:

Part I

Part II

Part III

 

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:

 

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

 

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