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Today I learned a new word in Icelandic 🇮🇸 :
Gervigreindardrulla

I was able understand it by just breaking it into its pieces gervi, greind and drulla:
Artificial Intelligence Shit

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W O R D
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Rigning
🇬🇧 English: Raining
🏷️ Noun (feminine)

E X A M P L E S E N T E N C E
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Í dag er mikil rigning úti.
🇬🇧 English: Today there is heavy rain outside.

G R A M M A R
📝 The word 'rigning' is a feminine noun in Icelandic. It can be used in both definite and indefinite forms. In the indefinite form, it is 'rigning' (rain), and in the definite form, it is 'rigningin' (the rain). The definite form is often used when referring to a specific instance of rain, while the indefinite form is used for general reference or when the specific instance is not known or important.

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W O R D
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Hjóla
🇬🇧 English: Bike
🏷️ Verb

E X A M P L E S E N T E N C E
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Ég hjóla oft til vinnu á sumrin.
🇬🇧 English: I often bike to work in the summer.

G R A M M A R
📝 Að hjóla is an infinitive verb in Icelandic. When conjugated, it follows regular weak verb patterns. For example, in the present tense: ég hjóla (I bike), þú hjólar (you bike), hann/hún/það hjólar (he/she/it bikes). In the past tense: ég hjólaði (I biked), þú hjólaðir (you biked), hann/hún/það hjólaði (he/she/it biked).

The verb itself does not change based on gender or definiteness. Instead, it agrees only with person (first, second, third) and number (singular or plural). This is why hann hjólar and hún hjólar use the same verb form — both are third person singular, even though the pronouns differ in gender.

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W O R D
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Köttur
🇬🇧 English: Cat
🏷️ Noun (masculine)

E X A M P L E S E N T E N C E
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Kötturinn er að drekka mjólkina.
🇬🇧 English: The cat is drinking the milk.

G R A M M A R
📝 In Icelandic, nouns have definite and indefinite forms. 'Köttur' is the indefinite nominative singular form meaning 'a cat'. The definite form is 'kötturinn' (the cat), where '-inn' is the definite article suffix. The indefinite form is used when referring to a cat in general or the first time mentioning a specific cat, while the definite form is used when the cat has been previously specified or is known to both the speaker and listener.

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          Ég er að horfa á Time Travelers. #Icelandic

I am watching for the Time Travelers.

❛❛ On the Night of the Total Lunar Eclipse,
Time Travelers descend in their space-time ships. ❜❜

— For more images in this series, click on: #KronoWatch

#WelcomeTimeTravelers #2025Mar14 #Iceland #Breiðavík #Ísland #Íslenska #Unsplash #TimeTravel #Kronodon

@islendingur

Ég heiti Morten Lange og bjó á #Íslandi árin 1995-2016. Ég var á tímabíli formaður Landssamtaka hjólreiðamanna #LHM og tók þátt í ferlinu í kring um nýja stjórnarskrá, lóðs á borði á tveimur þjóðfundum, o.fl.
Uppalinn að mestu í Osló, þar sem ég bý núna. Skrifaði ritgerð um #loftslagsbreytiga við háskólanum í Þrándheimi (NTH) 1989, og hef verið upptekinn av #SjálfbæraÞróun síðan amk. 1987. Störf upplýsingatækni, skipulagsmál, ofanvatn, veitumál, þekkingamiðlun o.fl
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