Icelandic Lesson #2, please stay with me here. The last day of finals is December 6, so I promise it will end!
First a few notes:
(m) means the masculine version
(f) means the feminine version
(n) means the nuetral version.
0 núll
1 einn (m), ein (f), eitt (n)
2 tveir (m), tvær (f), tvö (n)
3 þrír (m), þrjár (f), þrjú (n)
4 fjórir (m), fjórar (f), fjögur (n)
Only numbers one through four are that difficult, if you are still reading, I promise it gets better
5 fimm
6 sex
7 sjö
8 átta
9 níu
10 tíu
11 ellefu
12 tólf
13 þrettán
14 fjórtán
15 fimmtán
16 sextán
17 sautján
18 átján
19 nítján
20 tuttugu
21 tuttugu og einn
22 tuttugu of tveir
ect ect
next, lets count by 10s
10 tíu
20 tuttugu
30 þrjátíu
40 fjörutíu
50 fimmtíu
60 sextíu
70 sjötíu
80 áttatíu
90 níutíu
Another note: hunderd numbers like 100 or 200 are neutral
100 eitt hundrað
200 tvö hundruð
300 þrjú hundruð
400 fjögur hundruð
500 fimm hundruð
600 sex hundruð
700 sjö hundruð
800 átta hundruð
900 níu hundruð
same as the hunderds, the thousands are neutral
1000 eitt þúsund
New note: millions are feminine
1 000 000 ein milljón
2 000 000 tvær milljónir
Confused yet? Well I do not feel bad for you because you are not having to write a test on it
A few things to remember your kennitala (id number that you need for everything, even to rent a movie) is feminine and phone number are nuetral numbers.
When I try to order a coffee or something, I just take a wild guess at what gender it is (hmmm... does that coffee look manly today?) and hold up fingers to help incase I tottally mangle the number.
The neutral form of the word three is "þrjú".
ReplyDelete12 is "tólf"
"hundrað" with an "a" at the end, is the singular form of the word. All the hundreds except for one hundred (100) should use the plural form that has an "u" instead of the "a" ... e.g. "tvö hundruð", "þrjú hundruð", etc...
"Kennitala" is a feminine word. The word "tala" (number) is feminine, and that automatically causes "kennitala" to be feminine as well.
"Símanúmer" is a neutral word. That is because the word "númer" (number) is neutral.
The only masculine noun for anything to do with numbers, that I can think of that is "tölustafur" (a digit).
...and btw, the thousands are the same in singular og plural, while the millions change from "milljón" (s.) to "milljónir" (pl.)
ReplyDeleteOk, I think I have the corrections done now.
ReplyDeleteI just hope I can remember them now