\n\u00cd dag er m\u00e1nudagur<\/strong> \u2013 Today is Monday. You use the \u201cdagur\u201d form when a\u00f0 vera (“er”) is in front of the day of the week. This is because that verb “governs” nominative (dictionary) case, which just means that it forces the words it’s talking about to be in nominative.<\/p>\n
a\u00f0 \u00e6tla – to plan, intend, “going (to)” such as in “I’m going to<\/strong> go to the store” and “I’m going<\/strong> to<\/strong> do it” Note: You cannot have two conjugated verbs right next to each other. Saying “\u00e9g \u00e6tla l\u00e6ri \u00edslensku” is like “I intend learn icelandic”. You have to put “a\u00f0 – to” in-between and change the second verb to be in infinitive form (in English we can keep the second verb the same and only need to add in “to”, but Icelandic needs the extra step). There are some other rules with this but I won’t go into them here.<\/p>\n \u00c9g l\u00e6ri \u00edslensku \u00e1 m\u00e1nud\u00f6gum<\/strong> – I study Icelandic on Mondays. The “d\u00f6gum” ending means multiple days, in this case multiple Mondays. This is in dative plural.<\/p>\n \u00c1 hverjum (…)degi – Every (…)day. This can be left alone or you can add a real day into it. There are different ways to abbreviate the days of the week depending on how much room you have to write with: Finally, here are some more phrases you can play around with depending on your level of Icelandic. Remember to look things up in the dictionary<\/a> and declension dictionary<\/a> to make sure you are putting them in the right case: Here are the days of the week. Names of the months and how to write dates will come in a later post. sunnudagur – Sunday (sun-day) m\u00e1nudagur – Monday (moon-day) \u00feri\u00f0judagur – Tuesday (third-day) mi\u00f0vikudagur – Wednesday (mid-week day) fimmtudagur (sometimes spelled as “fimtu”, especially in older texts) – Thursday (fifth-day) f\u00f6studagur – Friday (fasting-day)…<\/p>\n
\na\u00f0 l\u00e6ra – to learn, study
\n\u00c9g \u00e6tla a\u00f0 l\u00e6ra \u00edslensku \u00e1 m\u00e1nudaginn<\/strong> – I plan\/am going to learn\/study Icelandic on Monday. The “daginn” ending means that you’re only talking about one specific day or time. This is in accusative case, but don’t worry about cases if you’re not learning them yet.<\/p>\n
\n\u00c9g l\u00e6ri \u00edslensku \u00e1 hverjum m\u00e1nudegi<\/strong> – I study Icelandic every Monday. This is in dative singular.<\/p>\n
\nS., Sun., Sunnud.
\nM., M\u00e1n., M\u00e1nud.
\n\u00de., \u00deri., \u00deri\u00f0jud.
\nM., Mi\u00f0., Mi\u00f0vikud.
\nF., Fim., Fim(m)tud.
\nF., F\u00f6s., F\u00f6stud.
\nL., Lau., Laugard.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i958.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae69\/JuicyPuffin\/Living%20in%20Iceland\/de8b860c.jpg\")
\nThis is the backside of a business card. It has a convenient form you can fill out to remember your next appointment.<\/p>\n
\ng\u00e6rdagur, \u00cd g\u00e6r – yesterday
\n\u00ed g\u00e6rkv\u00f6ld – yesterday evening
\n\u00ed g\u00e6rmorgunn – yesterday morning
\n\u00cd fyrradag – the day before yesterday
\n\u00ed fyrrakv\u00f6ld – the evening of the day before yesterday
\num daginn – a few days ago
\nhinn daginn – the other day
\n\u00e1 daginn – during the day, in the daytime
\nallan daginn – all day long
\n\u00ed morgun – this morning
\n\u00e1 morgun – tomorrow
\ntil morguns – until tomorrow\/morning
\n\u00ed hverri v\u00edku – every week (hverri is the same word as hverjum, it’s just declined differently)
\num helgina – over the weekend
\neftir helgina – after the weekend (“at the beginning of next week”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/06\/de8b860c-350x198.jpg\")