Inflection I

Grammatical gender is a feature in some languages where all nouns, regardless of whether they have a natural gender, are assigned a gender for grammatical purposes. This classification affects how words like articles, adjectives, and pronouns interact with nouns.

📄️ Weak Nouns

While learning Icelandic, it is extremely helpful to learn words in groups because it makes the learning process more efficient. Instead of memorizing each word individually, we can study entire groups that follow the same patterns, making our learning process much smoother and more effective.

📄️ Case Usages

Now that you know how to form the cases using singular weak nouns, it is time to learn a little more about how to use them.

📄️ Umlaut

As we have noted in previous lessons, sometimes the vowels in the stems of words change.

📄️ Weak Verbs

To this point, we have been exposed to a few different verbs (e.g., að elska, að tala, að heita) and have perhaps started to pick up on how they behave. In this lesson, we are going to drill down a little harder on verb inflections by learning how to inflect weak verbs in both the present and the past!

📄️ Singular Personal Pronouns

Now that we have basic familiarity with weak nouns, weak verbs, grammatical gender, and how the cases are used, its time to incorporate pronouns into the mix! It is extremely common to use pronouns during conversations after a noun has been mentioned previously and it is clear based on context what is being refered to.

📄️ Plurals

You may have noticed that, so far, we have only really worked with singular nouns and pronouns. This was a deliberate choice to help us focus on their patterns and gain a feel for how they change. Now that we are ready, it's time to introduce plural weak nouns.

📄️ Unit Overview