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Abbreviations |
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Introduction |
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The sounds and letters of Icelandic |
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Singular Nominative Nouns, Pronouns and Articles |
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Word Order: Questions and Answers |
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Vera/Heita in Singular Present |
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Present Continuous (`-ing') |
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Asking for information and giving information about yourself |
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countries, nationalities and colours |
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Singular Nominative Adjectives/Gender |
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Verbs in Singular Present |
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directions: adverbs of place |
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Verbs in the plural present |
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Plural Nouns, Articles and Adjectives |
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Money, Measurements, Asking for Amounts |
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Time: Hours, Days, Months, Seasons, Years |
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Suggested Action: `let's...' |
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4 Eg ætla ao fa ... Hvao verour petta mikio? |
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I would like to get ... How much will that be? |
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Shop Talk: Buying Something, Ordering a Snack/Drink |
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Asking for Availability: Vera Med, Fast, Eiga Til, Vera Til |
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Amounts and Prices: How Much? how many? |
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The Declension of nouns and articles |
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The use of cases after verbs and prepositions |
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Asking for permission: mega |
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addresses, bua and eiga heima |
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Descriptions of clothing and appearances |
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The Declensions of adjectives and numbers 1 to 4 |
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The use of cases continued |
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fracture: nouns and adjectives |
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Interrogative pronoun declensions |
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Travelling by bus and air |
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Booking and buying tickets |
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Personal Pronoun Declensions |
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Expressions of necessity and future intention |
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Radio and television programmes |
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Aspects of daily life in Iceland |
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The simple present conjugation of strong verbs |
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Vowel change: the l-shift |
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More about prepositions and their cases |
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Expressing Likes and Dislikes |
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Indefinite Pronouns: Einhver/Enginn |
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The Family Tree: Family and Relatives |
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Some Common Irregular Nouns and Their Declensions |
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Possessive Constructions and Pronouns |
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Using the Phone and Writing Emails |
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Arranging Meetings and Appointments, Making Plans |
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Ordinal Numbers and Dates |
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The Weak Declension of Adjectives |
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Indefinite dual and plural pronouns: baoir, allir, sumir, nokkrir, ymsir |
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The genitive case with adjectives |
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Numerals with plural nouns |
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Sports and leisure activities |
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Reflexive verbs and pronouns |
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Adverbs and intensifiers, making a point |
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Negative Pronouns ekki neinn/nokkur and hvorugur, emphatic negation |
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Present and past participles |
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Impersonal passive construction of intransitive verbs |
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Weather and wind directions |
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Passive use of the middle voice |
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Story, history and people |
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Some Icelandic history and culture: sagas and folk tales |
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The simple and continuous past |
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Writing letters, reporting events: recent past |
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Expressing possibility and ability: geta, kunna, bekkja, vita, vera hægt |
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15 Hofuo, heroar, hne og tær |
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Head and shoulders, knees and toes |
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More impersonal constructions: how are you feeling? |
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Visiting a doctor: aches, pains and afflictions |
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Present perfect: what has happened |
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Demonstrative pronouns: pessi, sa, hinn |
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Hopes and dreams: what if...? |
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subjunctive: past and present |
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`I said I would...': indirect speech |
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Hosts and guests: expressing politeness |
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Grammar summary |
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Glossary of grammatical terms |
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301 | (4) |
Key to exercises |
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Glosses of reading passages |
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336 | (15) |
Icelandic-English glossary |
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English-Icelandic glossary |
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Index |
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