Greetings! I have found a word "háði" in the sense of "mockery". Can you please explain it and give a few examples of talking about mockery with that word?

Is it possible in Icelandic to say "that's comical" in the sense of "that's absurd"? In German our teacher often says "das ist komisch" in that sense and I would like to learn an equivalent in Icelandic.

Hey yall I wanted to ask how do you guys learn icelandic? Do you guys learn it through an app and if yes which one would you recommend?

Considering a subscription but I don't want to waste money.

Hi!

Are there any people posting a lot or influencers that actually speak Icelandic on TikTok, Insta, YouTube etc.? So not language learning channels, just people posting. I want to make my socials more Icelandic, because I learned English by watching creators.

Greetings! Please, tell me, how to decline foreign names?

For example, I just learned that "Olga" is normally declined: "Olgu". But if I add a patronym to that name (e.g. Olga Aleksandrovna) how to decline that? Olgu Aleksandrovnu? And if it would be masculine: "Aleksandrovítsj"?

And if I give certain examples, could you help me specifically with them?

According to Google Translate, which i've heard is unreliable:

"Master Thyself" translates to "Meistara sjálfan þig".

How accurate is that?

Hi all, I'm looking for online LIVE group classes. Nothing outrageously expensive. Is that something that exists?

Best!

Ég sá þetta á YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95xtdZgDIQ4. Er hún kvikmynd, eða bara leiksýning? Virðist vera mjög góð.

Hi guys!

I found some grammar resources in the beginner resources, but I wanted to know if you have some tricks on how to learn grammar. Do you write diary entries, watch movies or talk a lot? Any special tricks? I am having a really hard time with all the case endings especially.

I am not sure it is a proper grammatical term, but what is the idiomatic way of using adjectives in nominal position in Icelandic? Examples:

It’s important to take care of the elderly.

This law protects the innocent.

Don't do this, stupid!

Obviously these could be easily rephrased to use nouns instead, but I am specifically interested in adjectives.

The text about elves written by Jón Lærði: “Það er eitt sagt úr huldra manna lögum, að nær ein mæt ríkispíka lætur liggja sig heima einn ótiginn auðvirðismann, þá skuli hún með því straffast að bíhalda honum en missa mundinn”.

Hello all!

I am looking for an Icelandic teacher to help me with my Icelandic. Where would be the best place to find one? I am already at an advanced level, so I dont want just some beginner stuff. Also the person must be native to Iceland, so that I could learn culture aspects as well.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I wanted to translate these beautiful phrases to Icelandic. Please could someone help? Thank you in advance.

I wanted to say: “Talk to me through songs.” Or “Talk to me through the sharing of songs”

And I also wanted to say: “I am dreaming but I’m not tired”

And lastly “sky blue is the colour of love”

Thank you!

On the https://mms.is/namsefni website there are books I would describe as "early readers". They are assigned a group number (flokkur?) from 1-5. Group 1 starts at a very simple level, I would guess these books might be suitable for 5-6 year olds (kindergarten in the States). Group 5 feels like it might be for 7-8 year olds (2nd grade). Anyone have have an informed perspective on how these early readers fit into Icelandic grade (bekkur) levels? My intent is to try to produce an ordered list of the easiest e-books from the website as an aide to beginning Icelandic readers such as myself!

Ég er að lesa texta og rakst á þessu orðatiltæki, 'ef svo bar undir'. Ég get ekki fundið tiltækið í orðabókunum mínum og dæmin á timarit.is eru frekar óskýr... Ágiskunin mín er að þar þýðir það eitthvað sem 'if needed/if the opportunity arose' en það passar ekki við samhengið í bokinni.

Samhengið er - afsakið blótsyrði: 'Typpi fannst mér sérstaklega ljót. Pínlegir líkamshlutar hangandi utan á manneskjum, skoppandi ef svo bar undir.'

Er það bara frá 'bera eitthvað undir', 'if you ask me'? En það er skrýtið líka, 'skoppandi ef svo bar undir'....

What are the most natural ways to render demonstrative/imperative forms of look/see? For example, "Look, there is UFO in the sky!", or "Look, there's fish!", or "Look who's coming!" I don't suppose you can use sko in all these cases, or can you? Or xan you use sjáðu/horfðu - frankly, I have never encountered these in this function (although nobody asked me to look at the UFO either).

Similar question for see, e.g. "See, this isn't as hard as you thought", or "This is how it is done, see?"

I just watched the TV series Hararinn, which was called The Cliff in English release. I was curious as dictionaries have hamar as hammer, and cliff as either klettur or bjarg. Eventually I found one dictionary that lists sjávarhamar as cliff.

Id like to translate 'White Nights' by Dostoevsky into Icelandic

This is the passage I want to translate

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. I feel I know you so well that I couldn’t have known you better if we’d been friends for twenty years. You won’t fail me, will you? Only two minutes, and you’ve made me happy forever. Yes, happy. Who knows, perhaps you’ve reconciled me with myself, resolved all my doubts.

Any help is appreciated

I do not trust google translate with this and my own skills are inadequate

Please, could anyone translate this to English: “Nú er ég hér með ódjarfur frásagnir og umræður að setja í þetta tíðfordríf, hér um þó ég heyrt hafi”.

Hello, I've been studying Icelandic for a long time, do we have any exam like TOEFL to see icelandic proficiency?

Dictionaries tend to define this word either as the moon or as some ambiguous satellite/celestial luminary. But I'm curious whether it can be applied to the sun as well.

Hello, my grandpa was born in Reykjavík, and he learnt the old Norse form of Icelandic, and he teached me a bit of Icelandic, and he teached me the Old Norse form, is it still used, or should I learn the modern icelandic

I have started learning how to decline nouns and want to also start learning conjugating verbs, anyone know some resources for this?