Íslenska Learn Icelandic

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A personal learning environment for Icelandic: grammar and phonetics cheat sheets, spaced-repetition flashcards, declension and gender trainers, a vocabulary and a study diary.

Cheat Sheets

minnisblöð

Phonetics

Vowels, diphthongs, stops and fricatives, palatalization, devoicing of sonorants, [d] insertion.

nf·þf·þgf·ef

Declensions

Nouns (strong/weak, all 3 genders), the article, adjectives, pronouns, degrees of comparison.

Noun Gender

A quick algorithm for determining gender: articles, endings, suffixes, semantic cues, and exceptions.

GM·MM·NT·ÞT

Verb Conjugations

Weak and strong verbs, miðmynd, non-finite forms, BÍN tags and basic paradigms of common irregular verbs.

-ð·-d·-t·-að

Weak Verbs

The four classes of weak verbs: present and past tense, choosing the -ð/d/t suffix, participles, paradigms and exceptions.

Numerals

Cardinal and ordinal numbers, declension of 1–4, tens, hundreds, compound numbers, dates, time, and practical usage examples.

Everyday Phrases

Greetings, "how are you?", goodbyes, thank you, please, you're welcome, apologies — everyday phrases with explanations.

Weather

Weather vocabulary: precipitation, seasons, adjectives, impersonal verbs, and how to say "minus two degrees" in the genitive.

Vowel Shifts (Umlaut)

U-umlaut (a→ö) and I-umlaut (a→e, ó→æ, ú→ý …): rules, exceptions, correspondence tables.

Tools

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Flashcards

Spaced repetition system (SM-2). Add words, import, statistics, IS→EN / EN→IS modes.

Beyging

Noun declensions, verb conjugations. Look up forms and practice with the BÍN database.

Vocabulary (Orðasafn)

Manage your vocabulary: add, edit, archive words, statistics and import.

Diary (Dagbók)

Study diary: lesson calendar, hour tracking, payments and progress analytics.

1·2·3·→orð

Numbers (Tölur)

Numerals trainer: numbers in words, prices in krónur, temperatures in the genitive, years. With audio.

Gender (Kyn)

Practice identifying the gender of Icelandic nouns: masculine, feminine, neuter. Words from your vocabulary.

Statistics (Tölfræði)

Learning progress: vocabulary, declensions, conjugations, genders. Weak spots and day-by-day trends.