{"id":501,"date":"2013-03-02T21:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?p=501"},"modified":"2013-04-04T01:28:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:28:49","slug":"koma-til-greina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/koma-til-greina\/","title":{"rendered":"Koma Til Greina"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I try to do every day is read over the Icelandic news sites, primarily R\u00daV<\/a> and V\u00edsir<\/a>. One strategy is to find a short article, just one or two paragraphs to read through several times. It often ends up being an exercise in looking up words, but if you do it long enough you find yourself looking up fewer and fewer words, and actually being able to get the gist of the story. You also begin to recognize certain phrases over and over, one of which is the topic of this post. The language of a news story is of course very different from prose or colloquial speech, but this phrase seems generic enough: koma til greina<\/strong>
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\nThe basic meaning of koma til greina<\/strong> is “possible” or “conceivable” or “to be considered”, as in the following:<\/p>\n

“David Beckham segir ekki koma til greina a\u00f0 spila me\u00f0 \u00f6\u00f0ru li\u00f0i \u00ed Englandi en Manchester United.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This was from an article<\/a> about David Beckham where he said he never considered playing for any other team in England besides Manchester United.<\/p>\n

The title of this<\/a> article was Kemur til greina a\u00f0 banna munnt\u00f3bak<\/strong><\/em>, which was about the possibility of banning chewing tobacco.<\/p>\n

The word grein<\/strong> itself has many meanings, and in this phrase is actually in the genitive plural:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
grein f (-ar, -ar) point, consideration<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\nsingular<\/th>\nplural<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
nom<\/th>\ngrein<\/td>\ngreinar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
acc<\/th>\ngrein<\/td>\ngreinar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dat<\/th>\ngrein<\/td>\ngreinum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gen<\/th>\ngreinar<\/td>\ngreina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

So keep an eye out for this fairly common phrase!<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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