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Misc. Gender Rules Posted by sequoia on Jun 5, 2012
Here are a few random notes about rules to do with genders. When writing to a mixed group, you can use a slash mark to alternate genders (similar to our “If your student wishes for a bought lunch, he/she can…”). Example: Mig langar til að biðja þig að vera svo góð/ur að svara eftirfarandi könnun…
Prefix and Suffix Meanings Posted by sequoia on Jun 2, 2012
Some affixes add a meaning to the word (such as the prefix ó) and some don’t. There are a few that you can easily look up the meaning of, but many of them don’t exist on their own in the dictionary so here I’m listing mostly ones that you can’t look up. All of these…
Free Stuff Posted by sequoia on May 29, 2012
Note: I didn’t notice earlier that I stopped receiving Email alerts for comments, so I missed all of your comments in the past month until now. If you wrote me one in around that timeframe, please check back now as I should have replied to all of them. If I still missed yours, please comment…
Exercise Post Posted by sequoia on May 26, 2012
Here are some things that you can use to study a few of the topics I’ve covered in previous posts. I haven’t taught you all of the grammar needed to understand the questions, or even everything needed to completely understand the posts I’m having you exercise, but that will have to come later or from…
Icelandic Food Part Two Posted by sequoia on May 22, 2012
The first part dealing with this is here, but again we’ll have a post about Icelandic food. Some of these things aren’t specifically Icelandic and they’re not all traditional food either, but I doubt they’re very widespread at least. Unless stated otherwise, these were all found at Bónus, a normal grocery store. Skate, a more…
Affixes and Compounds Posted by sequoia on May 19, 2012
This is a companion to the post about compound words that I made earlier. Sometimes Icelandic words are often made of more than one stem/root words at once, along with suffixes, infixes (like a suffix or prefix but in the middle of words), et cetera. This means they’re compound words but not necessarily compounds that…
Icelandic and Faroese Posted by sequoia on May 15, 2012
Unfortunately we’ve been getting quite a lot of spam comments lately, so if your comment seems to have disappeared it might be because it was caught in the spam filter and we didn’t notice that it wasn’t spam. Sorry! Many people don’t know this (just as many people don’t know about Iceland… some people don’t…