Basic Grammar
There are 32 letters in the Icelandic alphabet. Accented a, e, i, o, u and y count as separate letters. Letters 3, ae and o come at the end of the alphabet in that order. Hence a dictionary entry for mogulegur comes after morgunn . Verbs come in many classes and are either strong and characterized by a vowel change ( tek, tok, tekinn : "take", "took", "taken") or weak ( tala, taladi : "speak", "spoke"), without a vowel shift. Verb endings agree with pronouns , which are as follows: eg ("I"), pu ("you", singular), hann ("he"), hun ("she"), pad ("it"), vid ("we"), piz ("you", plural), peir ("you", masculine plural), paer ("you", feminine plural), pau ("you", neuter or mixed gender plural). Icelandic nouns can have one of three genders (masculine, feminine or neuter) and can appear in any one of four different grammatical cases (nominative, accusative, genitive and dative). For example, the masculine word fjordur , meaning "a fjord", is fjordur in the nominative case, fjord , in the accusative case, fjardar in the genitive and firdi in the dative case. The case of a noun is determined by many factors, including the use of a preceding preposition, for instance, i Reykjavik ("in Reykjavik") but til Reykjavikur ("to Reykjavik"). Watch out for this particularly at airports on the arrival and departure boards: planes to Egilsstadir for example will be marked Egilsstada (genitive), but those arriving from Egilsstadir are labelled as Egilsstodum (dative). Vowels also have an unnerving ability to shift - for example, her er amma ("here is grandma") but eg se ommu ("I see grandma"). This even happens with proper nouns: petta er Lada ("this is a Lada car") but eg a Lodu ("I own a Lada"). There is no indefinite article in Icelandic with the result that fjordur can mean both "fjord" and "a fjord". The definite article , as in the other Scandinavian languages, is suffixed to the noun; for example, madur means "a man", but madurinn means "the man". The definite article is declined according to the gender and number of the noun. Adjectives generally precede the noun they qualify and are inflected according to the gender and case gender of the noun. The strong declension is used with indefinite nouns, as in godur madur - "a good man". Definite nouns (those with the definite article or other determinatives) require the weak declension, so godi madurinn , "the good man".
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