{"id":3548,"date":"2013-07-30T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2013-07-30T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:37:02","slug":"berry-picking-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/berry-picking-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Berry Picking Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blueberry\"<\/p>\n

V\u00edsir has an article about the upcoming berry season in Iceland, which is expected to begin in mid-August according to teacher and berry enthusiast Emil\u00eda Rafnsd\u00f3ttir. <\/p>\n

There are several good berry-related vocabulary words – all that’s missing is a pie recipe \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Berin \u00ferosku\u00f0 um mi\u00f0jan \u00e1g\u00fast<\/strong><\/a>
\nBerries ripe around mid-August<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some excerpts:<\/p>\n

Horfur \u00e1 berjasprettu eru g\u00f3\u00f0ar, a\u00f0 mati Emil\u00edu Rafnsd\u00f3ttur, leiksk\u00f3lakennara og berjavinar, sem kanna\u00f0 hefur st\u00f6\u00f0una \u00ed Borgarfir\u00f0i og Eyjafir\u00f0i.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prospects are good for berry growing, in the estimation of Emil\u00eda Rafnsd\u00f3ttir, grade-school teacher and berry enthusiast, who has been monitoring the situation in Borgarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and Eyjafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201e\u00dea\u00f0 lofar mj\u00f6g g\u00f3\u00f0u me\u00f0 bl\u00e1berin en \u00feau ver\u00f0a \u00fe\u00f3 ekki or\u00f0in almennilega \u00ferosku\u00f0 fyrr en um mi\u00f0jan \u00e1g\u00fast \u00ed landi sem \u00e9g \u00e1 vi\u00f0 Muna\u00f0arnes. \u00cd hittifyrra var \u00e9g farin a\u00f0 t\u00edna bl\u00e1ber \u00fear \u00ed lok j\u00fal\u00ed.\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It is looking very promising for blueberries but they won’t be properly ripe before mid-August on the land I have by Muna\u00f0arnes. The year before last I had picked berries there at the end of July.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So if you want to pick berries in Icelandic, the verb a\u00f0 t\u00edna<\/strong> is the word you are looking for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
a\u00f0 t\u00edna – to pick, gather, pluck<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\npresent<\/th>\npast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9g<\/th>\nt\u00edni<\/td>\nt\u00edndi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\nt\u00ednir<\/td>\nt\u00edndir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\nt\u00ednir<\/td>\nt\u00edndi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi\u00f0<\/th>\nt\u00ednum<\/td>\nt\u00edndum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\nt\u00edni\u00f0<\/td>\nt\u00edndu\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00feau<\/th>\nt\u00edna<\/td>\nt\u00edndu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Emil\u00eda gerir r\u00e1\u00f0 fyrir a\u00f0 vegna rigningart\u00ed\u00f0ar \u00e1 su\u00f0vesturhorninu \u00ed sumar ver\u00f0i bl\u00e1berin \u00fear ekki or\u00f0in n\u00f3gu g\u00f3\u00f0 til t\u00ednslu fyrr en \u00ed lok \u00e1g\u00fast.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emil\u00eda figures that due to the rainy weather in the southwestern corner of the country this summer the blueberries won’t be good for picking before the end of August.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here the noun related to a\u00f0 t\u00edna<\/strong> is seen – t\u00ednsla<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I looked up as many types of berries that I could find, but this is certainly not an exhaustive list:<\/p>\n

\r\nbl\u00e1\u00b7ber                  blueberry\r\nbr\u00f3m\u00b7ber                 blackberry\r\neini\u00b7ber                 juniper berry\r\nhind\u00b7ber                 raspberry\r\nhr\u00fata\u00b7ber                brambleberry\r\njar\u00f0ar\u00b7ber               strawberry\r\nkirsu\u00b7ber                cherry\r\nkr\u00e6ki\u00b7ber                crowberry\r\nm\u00f3r\u00b7ber                  mulberry\r\nrau\u00f0\u00b7ber\/rifs\u00b7ber        red currant\r\ns\u00f3l\u00b7ber                  black currant\r\nstikils\u00b7ber              gooseberry\r\nv\u00edn\u00b7ber                  grape\r\n<\/pre>\n
And of course they all decline like ber<\/strong> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
ber (n) – berry<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\nsingular<\/th>\nplural<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
nom<\/th>\nber<\/td>\nber<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
acc<\/th>\nber<\/td>\nber<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dat<\/th>\nberi<\/td>\nberjum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gen<\/th>\nbers<\/td>\nberja<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
A phrase you may have run into (I think it’s in Colloquial Icelandic<\/em>) is <\/p>\n
a\u00f0 fara \u00ed berjam\u00f3<\/strong> – to go berry picking \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
\r\n\u00feroska\u00f0ur adj                mature, ripe\r\nhorfur f pl                  prospects, outlook\r\nalmenni\u00b7lega adv             properly, rightly\r\nhitti\u00b7fyrra (n)              the year before last\r\nt\u00edna v (acc)                 pick, gather, pluck\r\nspretta (f)                  (rate of) growth\r\ngera r\u00e1\u00f0 fyrir               assume something\r\n<\/pre>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
V\u00edsir has an article about the upcoming berry season in Iceland, which is expected to begin in mid-August according to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}