Archive for 'Icelandic grammar'
Hafa, eiga, vera með. Posted by hulda on May 4, 2012
Sequoia already went briefly over these three, but I decided to dig a little bit deeper into them and the other rules that are tied to these verbs. Besides, repetition is the mother of all learning! There are three ways of showing ownership in Icelandic, or better said three verbs for it: eiga, hafa and vera…
Noun Genders and A-mutation Posted by sequoia on Apr 17, 2012
I haven’t taught anything in a while, so today we have “genders of nouns”. Again this is taken partially from the textbook I’m writing. It’s very important to know the gender of nouns because how you change other parts of the sentence (like adjectives, which also have genders) depends on what gender the noun is…
Easter proverbs Posted by sequoia on Apr 9, 2012
Here are the sayings I have from this year’s chocolate Easter eggs, as described in Hulda’s previous post. Some of them are clear just by looking up the individual words, but some, as she mentioned, might not make sense even to a native speaker. There might be some errors in typing them up, I noticed…
Icelandic sample exams Posted by sequoia on Jan 25, 2012
This post is for the person who wanted to know about the exams for the Icelandic courses. Unfortunately this might be too late to help them, but hopefully it can help someone else. The first thing you need to know is that there are two different “Icelandic for foreigners” courses at the University of Iceland…
Street art Posted by sequoia on Oct 21, 2011
Here’s some more street art: (EDIT 15/04/2012: I’ve removed two of the images that were originally in this post) For a while there were big mounds of grass around the immediate downtown area, I have no idea why and I lost my other photos of them. Then white silhouettes appeared on some of…
Numbers post two Posted by sequoia on Oct 10, 2011
Here are the remaining things I have for numbers. If you don’t understand anything, if I missed something, or if you didn’t learn dative case for example, just tell me and I’ll write another post. Accusative: Karlkyn Kvenkyn Hvorugkyn einn eina eitt tvo tvær tvö þrjá þrjár þrjú fjóra fjórar fjögur Dative: Karlkyn Kvenkyn Hvorugkyn…
Numbers part one of two Posted by sequoia on Oct 6, 2011
Most of this is just taken from stuff I’ve typed up as drafts for a textbook, but I’ve added things in and if you don’t understand anything just ask. I figure most of you readers know this stuff already but there were a few people who were interested in learning Icelandic and who weren’t already…