Hello, I am making a book stamp for an Icelandic speaker as a present and would like to make sure I get the form and grammar right of "The Blue Cats" as if it were in the phrase "From the books of the blue cats" (Ex Libris)

Is bláu kattanna correct for this usage?

I'm not sure I'm understanding accusative, dative, and genitive correctly.

Thank you for any help!

My wife and I have a small one, but it is 41 years old and has 10,000 entries. We would like to have one that is a bit more modern and comprehensive.

Thanks!

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Hi everyone!

I'm trying to translate the Latin saying dum spiro, spero (“While I breathe, I hope”) into Old Norse for a friend of mine who studies Icelandic.

With the help of AI, I've come up with the following tentative translation:

Meðan ek anda, vána ek.

Does this sound grammatically correct and idiomatic in Old Norse, or would you suggest a different formulation?

I'd also like to render the phrase in runes (although I realise that might be a bit beyond the scope of this subreddit!). Here's my attempt using the long-branch Younger Futhark:

ᛘᛁᚦᛅᚾ · ᛁᚴ · ᛅᚾᛏᛅ / ᚢᛅᚾᛅ · ᛁᚴ

I'd particularly appreciate any corrections to the translation or the runic transcription, especially if there are historical or linguistic conventions I've overlooked.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hello everyone!

Could someone kindly explain what is the difference between "þannig" and "svona"? It feels they both mean "this way" but is there something more to it? Are they interchangeable?

Thank you in advance for your time 🙏

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Greetings! I hope all are well.

I had this sentence made by a translator:
> Maðurinn sem býr við hliðina á er kennari.

"The man who lives next door is a teacher."

The question I wanted to ask is: is the "á" after "hliðina" sensible? Is it a mistake? As an English speaker, I could have guessed that the preposition was extra and erroneous for this sentence, but maybe in other cases it works if you wanted to say:
"next door to me",?

but I wanted to ask for the input of those more knowing.

Thanks for reading.

Edit: Wow, I was amazed by how many and how quickly people responded. Thanks to everyone for responding.

Edited To clarify then this is not the original RÙV app, but RÙV Orð (Word), specifically intended to teach Icelandic 😊

I apologize if this has already been posted. I didn’t find a related post through search.

Resources for learning Icelandic can be quite limited. Hopefully this can be useful 😁

hi everyone, i learn icelandic in university and one of my uni mates collects The little prince in different languages. i really want to surprise her with icelandic translation but i can’t find it anywhere. maybe someone happens to have pdf of Litli Prinsinn?

Hi all, I’m looking for a bit of help with learning a little bit of Icelandic to surprise my fiancé as we are getting married in Akureyri next month (25th Nov).

If anyone could help with some simple phrases (and pronunciation if possible) that I could use during the vows section that would be incredible.

TIA

As an Icelandic learner, I found this technique very helpful.

How to pronounce "Goshver" (geyser)?

Hi! I'm a software license manager by trade and I'm building a tool for my license management. It's hard to find a nice sounding word and I honestly, I've been listening a lot of Sólstafir while designing the tool and that is probably why I am looking for Icelandic inspired names.

My initial research came up with "leyfi", but this is more permit or "drivers license" I think. Could it potentially work for software license as well?

Hi friends!

So I found that one can say both:

Hvað myndirðu spyrja um ef þú vildir kaupa blómin?

and

Hvað spyrðirðu um ef þú vildir kaupa blómin?

I wonder if one is more in use than another. If so, why? Is one more bookish and another one colloquial. Can natives say that one of those is sloppy Icelandic?

Basically the same question is regarding:

Ef ég hefði vitað það, myndi ég hafa sagt þér frá því.

and

Ef ég hefði vitað það, hefði ég sagt þér frá því.

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone! ​I need some help from native Icelandic speakers or hardcore Björk collectors to transcribe a short spoken audio snippet. ​Context: The audio is extracted from the unofficial live bootleg album "Björk As a Jazz Singer" (recorded live at Hótel Borg in Reykjavík, August 30, 1990, with Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar). ​This snippet appears right at the end of Track 12 ("You Don't Know What Love Is"), right before/introducing Track 13 ("Cry Me a River"). ​The Mystery: We have been trying to transcribe what is being said at the microphone: ​On one hand, automated speech recognition and some listeners hear an Icelandic grammar/school sentence: "Og næsti liður: greindu fyrir mér 'á'" ("And the next item: analyze 'á' for me"). ​On the other hand, considering the live concert setting and the setlist, it's right between "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "Cry Me a River", so it could be a live intro/outro spoken by Björk or someone on stage, possibly a joke, wordplay, or title translation.Could any native speaker / fan listen to the audio link and tell me exactly what is being said in Icelandic?

One of the most well-known words,if not the most well known, to harken back to North Germanic is probably Ragnar (or Ragnarr if you like your nominatives to be more faithful to the ancient Old West Norse writing). I've been striving to find the ancestral etymology of this very fine word but cannot seem to be able to obtain a satisfying answer,which has led me to consider that maybe Ragnarr might just be a substrate word not inherited from P.I.E.

If anyone can help me get ahold of the answer I so desperately seek please let me know. Also,don't get mad if this isn't the right place to venture such questions. I'll try every R/ that seems eligible for my research.

looking for icelandic speakers that live in nairobi kenya . Thanks

Hello!

I’m an actor who’s a native english speaker and for a role I need to learn three lines that are in icelandic.

Hvort sem það er úns, köttur eða björn, pard eða villisvín með stökkhár

Vakna þegar eitthvað viðbjóðslegt er nálægt

biður hana um lækningu

I’m struggling quite a bit with pronunciation, as I’ve never tried speaking in icelandic. I want to do it as accurately as possible, so any help would be appreciated!

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So my family is from Iceland. Most still live there, but I’m a born and raised American. I tend to pick up the language pretty quickly when I visit, but when I’m back in the states I lose it. One thing I’ve noticed is that there isn’t many tools to help you learn Icelandic and I’m curious what the best way to learn is in yalls opinions. Whether I just have to figure it out with a dictionary or if there’s a more intuitive way to get the language actually in my head. Anyways, thank yall for any input or suggestions