{"id":5134,"date":"2016-08-25T21:07:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T21:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2016-08-25T21:07:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T21:07:34","slug":"basic-survival-in-iceland-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/2016\/08\/25\/basic-survival-in-iceland-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic survival in Iceland: pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you want to visit Iceland? Then it’s absolutely vital that you’ll know how to order flatbaka<\/em>,\u00a0“a flatbake”,<\/em> of your preference\u00a0in Icelandic. This food item is also known as a pizza.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Ville.fi at Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n

Basics<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

S\u00f3sa, t\u00f3mats\u00f3sa, pizzas\u00f3sa<\/em> (= sauce, ketchup, pizza sauce)
\nT\u00f3matar<\/em> (= tomatoes)
\nOstur<\/em> (= cheese)
\nHv\u00edtlaukur<\/em> (= garlic, lit. transl. “white onion”)
\nOregano<\/em> (= oregano, yes)
\nParmesan ostur<\/em> (= parmesan cheese)
\nPizza\/flatbaka<\/em> (= normal pizza)
\nH\u00e1lfm\u00e1ni<\/em> (= lit. transl. “half moon”, a calzone)
\nP\u00f6nnupizza<\/em> (= pan pizza)
\nBrau\u00f0stangir<\/em> (= bread sticks, these are super delicious!)<\/p>\n

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Little Calzones by Jackie Angelli at Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kj\u00f6t<\/em> (= meat)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Skinka<\/em> (= ham)
\nPepperoni<\/em> (= pepperoni)
\nKj\u00faklingur<\/em> (= chicken)
\nBeikon<\/em> (= bacon)
\nHakk\/nautahakk<\/em> (= mince meat, beef mince meat)<\/p>\n

Sj\u00e1varr\u00e9ttir<\/em> (= seafood)<\/strong><\/p>\n

T\u00fanfiskur<\/em> (= tuna)
\nKr\u00e6klingar<\/em> (= mussles)
\nR\u00e6kjur<\/em> (= shrimps)
\nHumar<\/em> (= langoustine – often mistaken for a lobster but actually much, much smaller… if some restaurant claims to make lobster pizza they probably mean langoustine instead)<\/p>\n

Gr\u00e6nmeti\/\u00e1vextir<\/em> (= vegetables\/fruit)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sveppir<\/em> (= mushrooms)
\nLaukur<\/em> (= onion)
\nRau\u00f0laukur<\/em> (= red onion)
\n\u00d3l\u00edfur<\/em> (= olives)
\nAnanas<\/em> (= pineapple)
\nMa\u00edskorn<\/em> (= sweetcorn)
\nPaprika<\/em> (= bell pepper).
\nJalapeno<\/em> (= jalapeno)<\/p>\n

Anna\u00f0<\/em> (= others)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Piparostur<\/em> (= pepper cheese)
\nRj\u00f3maostur<\/em> (= cream cheese)
\nGr\u00e1\u00f0ostur<\/em> (= blue cheese)<\/p>\n

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Pizza by Tom Hilton at Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n

Important word you might want to look out for is tilbo\u00f0<\/em>, offers, because sometimes the whole friends group might manage to eat for half price. Note though that some of these come with conditions: h\u00e1degistilbo\u00f0<\/em> is only available until noon or early afternoon, tvennutilbo\u00f0<\/em> means two pizzas. Also if you decide to order something called L\u00e1ttu bakarann\/okkur r\u00e1\u00f0a<\/em> you’ll never know what you’ll get… that one means “let us\/the chef decide for you”.<\/p>\n

How to order<\/strong><\/p>\n

Icelandic is notoriously difficult when it comes to declension, but here’s a handy basic guide that you can fill out as you like!<\/p>\n

\u00c9g \u00e6tla a\u00f0 f\u00e1 \u00a0 \u00a0eina t\u00f3lf tommu pizzu\/flatb\u00f6ku \u00a0 \u00a0me\u00f0\u00a0nautahakki, sveppum, lauk og rj\u00f3maosti \u00a0 \u00a0og tv\u00e6r ni\u00fa tommu pizzur\/flatb\u00f6kur \u00a0 \u00a0me\u00f0 r\u00e6kjum og \u00f3l\u00edfum.<\/em><\/p>\n

(= I’d like to have one 12 inch pizza with mince meat, mushrooms, onion and cream cheese, and two 9 inch pizzas with shrimps and olives.)<\/p>\n

Let’s break it down a bit:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c9g \u00e6tla a\u00f0 f\u00e1…<\/em> literally translates as I’m going to\/planning to have… and it’s the easiest and probably most typical way of ordering food. This is what you start with, and the following word for the food you want to order needs to be in \u00feolfall<\/em>, or accusative. Pizza and flatbaka are both feminine, so any\u00a0numbers included must also be shown in feminine accusative.<\/p>\n

With pizza the next step is to describe the fillings. The preposition me\u00f0<\/em> (= with) demands that everything that happens right after its presence is set in \u00fe\u00e1gufall<\/em>, dative. You also need to keep an eye on singular and plural forms: if you order ham you use singular because else you’d be ordering your pizza with hams. Anything that comes in many pieces like olives is naturally a plural. Cheese is again singular, if you use plural it means you want many cheeses, or maybe many types of cheese. The singular vs. plural works pretty much the same as in English.<\/p>\n

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Pizza by Christian Jensen at Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n

So now you know how it works! Hulda would place her own order like this:<\/p>\n

\u00c9g \u00e6tla a\u00f0 f\u00e1 einn skammt af \u00f3stabrau\u00f0stangir og eina ni\u00fa tommu me\u00f0 t\u00fanfiski og lauk.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

(= I’d like to have one portion of cheese bread sticks and one nine inch [the word pizza can be omitted] with tuna and onion.)<\/p>\n

Flatbaka really is the official word for pizza in Icelandic by the way, Icelanders are strict to extremes when it comes to adding new words to the language so usually everything has an Icelandic name. Some, like t\u00f6lva<\/em> (= computer), s\u00edmi<\/em> (= phone) or B\u00edtlarnir<\/em> (= The Beatles), are regularly used, some like flatbaka<\/em>, bj\u00fagal\u00f0in<\/em> (= “bendy fruit”) and lo\u00f0ber<\/em> (= “hairy berry”) are usually spoken of as pizza, banana and k\u00edv\u00ed instead. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

So you want to visit Iceland? Then it’s absolutely vital that you’ll know how to order flatbaka,\u00a0“a flatbake”, of your preference\u00a0in Icelandic. This food item is also known as a pizza. Basics S\u00f3sa, t\u00f3mats\u00f3sa, pizzas\u00f3sa (= sauce, ketchup, pizza sauce) T\u00f3matar (= tomatoes) Ostur (= cheese) Hv\u00edtlaukur (= garlic, lit. transl. “white onion”) Oregano (=…<\/p>\n

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