{"id":1379,"date":"2013-03-27T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2013-04-04T01:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:22:16","slug":"months-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/months-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Months Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"months\"<\/p>\n

The months of the year in Icelandic will likely look familiar, as they are similar to English and other related languages. They are easy to learn and work with since they do not change form (decline), but remain in the same form as you see them in the nominative case. Just as the days of the week are not capitalized in Icelandic, neither are the names of the months. Let’s look at the months themselves and then how to use them in expressing dates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
M\u00e1nu\u00f0irnir – The Months<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
January<\/strong><\/td>\njan\u00faar<\/td>\nJuly<\/strong><\/td>\nj\u00fal\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February<\/strong><\/td>\nfebr\u00faar<\/td>\nAugust<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00e1g\u00fast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March<\/strong><\/td>\nmars<\/td>\nSeptember<\/strong><\/td>\nseptember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April<\/strong><\/td>\napr\u00edl<\/td>\nOctober<\/strong><\/td>\nokt\u00f3ber<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May<\/strong><\/td>\nma\u00ed<\/td>\nNovember<\/strong><\/td>\nn\u00f3vember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June<\/strong><\/td>\nj\u00fan\u00ed<\/td>\nDecember<\/strong><\/td>\ndesember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

To talk about which day of the month it is, or on what day something is happening, we need numbers \ud83d\ude42 But not just any numbers, ordinal numbers (ra\u00f0t\u00f6lur<\/strong>)<\/em>! (First, second, third, etc.) To keep it simple we’ll just look at the ones we need to express dates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Ordinal Numbers (1 – 31)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/th>\nfyrsti<\/td>\n11<\/th>\nellefti<\/td>\n21<\/th>\ntuttugasti og fyrsti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/th>\nannar<\/td>\n12<\/th>\nt\u00f3lfti<\/td>\n22<\/th>\ntuttugasti og annar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/th>\n\u00feri\u00f0ji<\/td>\n13<\/th>\n\u00ferett\u00e1ndi<\/td>\n23<\/th>\ntuttugasti og \u00feri\u00f0ji<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/th>\nfj\u00f3r\u00f0i<\/td>\n14<\/th>\nfj\u00f3rt\u00e1ndi<\/td>\n24<\/th>\ntuttugasti og fj\u00f3r\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/th>\nfimmti<\/td>\n15<\/th>\nfimmt\u00e1ndi<\/td>\n25<\/th>\ntuttugasti og fimmti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/th>\nsj\u00f6tti<\/td>\n16<\/th>\nsext\u00e1ndi<\/td>\n26<\/th>\ntuttugasti og sj\u00f6tti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/th>\nsj\u00f6undi<\/td>\n17<\/th>\nsautj\u00e1ndi<\/td>\n27<\/th>\ntuttugasti og sj\u00f6undi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/th>\n\u00e1ttundi<\/td>\n18<\/th>\n\u00e1tj\u00e1ndi<\/td>\n28<\/th>\ntuttugasti og \u00e1ttundi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/th>\nn\u00edundi<\/td>\n19<\/th>\nn\u00edtj\u00e1ndi<\/td>\n29<\/th>\ntuttugasti og n\u00edundi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/th>\nt\u00edundi<\/td>\n20<\/th>\ntuttugasti<\/td>\n30<\/th>\n\u00fer\u00edtugasti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\n<\/td>\n<\/th>\n<\/td>\n31<\/th>\n\u00fer\u00edtugasti og fyrsti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

So now you are all set to answer the question:<\/p>\n

Hva\u00f0a m\u00e1na\u00f0ardagur er \u00ed dag?<\/strong> – What day is today?<\/p>\n

\u00cd dag er tuttugasti og sj\u00f6undi mars.<\/strong> – Today is the 27th of March.<\/p>\n

Just as in the post about the days of the week<\/a>, you can construct a very simple drill to learn not only all of the months of the year but also all of the ordinal numbers from 1 to 31, using the following:<\/p>\n

Hva\u00f0a m\u00e1na\u00f0ardagur er \u00ed dag?<\/strong> – What day is today?
\nHva\u00f0a m\u00e1na\u00f0ardagur er \u00e1 morgun?<\/strong> – What day is tomorrow?
\nHva\u00f0a m\u00e1na\u00f0ardagur var \u00ed g\u00e6r?<\/strong> – What day was yesterday?<\/p>\n

\u00cd dag er tuttugasti og sj\u00f6undi mars.<\/strong> – Today is the 27th of March.
\n\u00c1 morgun er tuttugasti og \u00e1ttundi mars.<\/strong> – Today is the 28th of March.
\n\u00cd g\u00e6r var tuttugasti og sj\u00f6tti mars.<\/strong> – Yesterday was the 26th of March.<\/p>\n

Just work your way through every day of the year and answer those questions \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

When you want to say that something happens\/happened on a particular date, you put the ordinal number in the accusative case. Since ordinals decline like weak adjectives, you just need to change the -i<\/strong> ending to -a<\/strong>. The only exception is annar<\/strong>, which becomes annan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00c9g f\u00f3r til \u00cdslands annan september.<\/strong> – I went to Iceland September 2nd.
\n\u00deau eiga fr\u00eddag \u00fer\u00edtugasta og fyrsta desember.<\/strong> – They have a holiday December 31st.
\n\u00c9g \u00e1 afm\u00e6li t\u00f3lfta mars.<\/strong> – My birthday is on March 12th.<\/p>\n

So now you have no excuse for missing an appointment in Iceland \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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