Wikibooks: Icelandic/Lesson 1

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• Language: English
• Subjects: Iceland
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Icelandic contents Kafli 1 Halló! Lesson 1 Hello! = Fyrstu orðin (The first words) = = Kveðjur og orðasambönd (Greetings and phrases) = Athuga When talking to or about someone gender is an important part of Icelandic conversation and speech. For example when greeting a man you must say Komdu sæll blessaður or sæll . To a woman you would say Komdu sæl blessuð or sæl If the situation is informal you can just say Hæ or Bæ regardless of gender When there is a group of people of mixed gender you could say Komið þið sæl og blessuð When you want to welcome someone you also must take into account the gender of the listener. If you are welcoming a man you say Velkominn if a woman you say Velkomin . If you are welcoming a group of people you also would say Velkomin Although Allt í lagi means okay (Ok!) you will of course also hear ókei said the same as the English okay As you may have noticed Góða daginn (or Góðan dag ) means both good morning and good afternoon . Icelanders use this greeting from the early morning hours (after midnight) until slightly before dinner time. In Iceland since there is sunlight almost 24 hours in the summer months and about 4 hours in the winter months using these greetings based on how it looks outside is not a good reference Remember that the letter Æ is pronounced like the English i in m i ne . Refer back to the [[Alphabet and Pronunciation]] page if you are struggling with reading words in Icelandic. The phonetic pronunciation will go away after this lesson since Icelandic words are pronounced as they are read. Therefore it is essential that by the end of this lesson you are comfortable with the Icelandic alphabet and how it is pronounced = Málfræði (Grammar) = = Nafnorð (Nouns) = A noun is a person place or thing. It has the same function in Icelandic. A noun in an Icelandic sentence unlike one in English reflects its case gender and number as it s being used in the sentence. There are 4 grammatical cases in Icelandic (Nominative Accusative Dative and ...