Icelandic lesson

Before proceeding, make sure you are familiar with how Icelandic is pronounced. Here is a good place to start. Also, some of the vocabulary words are linked to a page where you can hear the word or phrase pronounced by native speakers.

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Vocabulary

hæ hi

Ég held að þú biður eftir mér. I think you are waiting for me.

Ertu…? Are you…?

Hvað heitirðu? What is your name? (Literally: What are you called?)

hvað what

að heita to be called

þú you

Ég heit… My name is…

Ég ætla að… I am going to…

að hjálpa to help

þér you (dative form; In Icelandic objects of a sentence generally use the accusative or dative forms)

að venjast to get used to

þessum this (dative form)

skoli school

skola school (accusative, dative, and genitive form)

íslenska Icelandic (language)

íslensku Icelandic (accusative, dative, and genitive form)

nafn name

já yes

jú yes (when confirming something already stated or stating something obvious to the listener)

Ég kem frá… I come from…

Noregur Norway

Noregi Norway (dative form)

en but

ég hef lært I have learned

þegar when

ég I

var was

yngri younger

ein af vinkonum mínum one of my (female friends)

kemur frá Íslandi comes from Iceland

Í alvöru? Really?

hún she

ekki not

langt frá far from

ég man það I remember that

núna now

ég hef fært I have gone

að fara to go

einu sinni once, one time

ég heimsökti I visited

að heimsækja to visit

Fyrsti tíminn minn er í annarri stofu. My first class is in another classroom.

Takk fyrir. Thank you.

Gangi þér vel! Good Luck!; May it go well for you!

Sjáumst! See you later!
Grammar

For this first lesson, I won’t focus on any grammar. But in the next lesson, I will explain what nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive forms are with a simple overview of when they are used.