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Icelandic grammar is the set of structural rules that describe the use of the Icelandic language. Icelandic is a heavily inflected language . Icelandic nouns are assigned to one of three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, or neuter), and are declined into four cases (nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive).
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The verbs gróa and gnúa (núa in modern Icelandic) were adapted to the forms of róa and snúa by analogy, although they did not begin with s-or r-(their past tenses in Germanic were *gegrō and presumably *gegnō). In modern Icelandic, the first person singular ending was replaced by -i in all weak verbs
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Hljóðkerfi og orðhlutakerfi íslensku (PDF) (in Icelandic). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-06. Árnason, Kristján (2011). The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-922931-4. Gussmann, Edmund (2011). "Getting your head around: the vowel system of Modern Icelandic" (PDF). Folia Scandinavica ...
This opened the eyes of Icelanders with regard to their cultural importance and increased their self-confidence. The Danish linguist Rasmus Rask (1787–1832) learnt Icelandic in his youth and it became his favorite language. He compiled the first real Icelandic grammar, which was a huge step forward in comparison with earlier attempts.
Icelandic, by contrast, still sports a real nominal inflection, so the purported familiarity vanishes. 78.50.247.233 21:08, 17 May 2009 (UTC) Wojciech Żełaniec . Added the PDF to the external links section. Added a concession to the German and Icelandic languages section. Also highlighted an example that proves the statement.
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