How to use demonstrative pronouns in Icelandic

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Icelandic

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Icelandic? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Icelandic lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Icelandic demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Icelandic demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'þessi' or 'þetta' in Icelandic. The word 'þessi' is used with masculine words and the word 'þetta' is used with feminine words.

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þessi bygging
this building
þessi kona
this woman
þessi stelpa
this girl
þessi hurð
this door
þetta hús
this house
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Það er heitt.
It is hot.
Það er skýjað.
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Það er rakt.
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Það er þoka.
It is foggy.
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Step 6 : Icelandic demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns bók, stóll and hurð (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Icelandic demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Icelandic demonstrative pronouns with the nouns bók, stóll and hurð and the plural nouns bækur, stólar and hurðir you can move on to Step 7 (Icelandic adjectives).

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