Icelandic/Basic Vocabulary

Personal pronouns
Personal pronouns in Icelandic decline, just as they do in English:

Article
Since Icelandic doesn't have an indefinite article, a man will simply be maður in Icelandic. However it does have an attached definite article, so the man will become maðurinn in Icelandic.

the child is small = barnið er lítið this is a small child = þetta er lítið barn the man is young = maðurinn er ungur the woman is young = konan er ung

Notice that in the above sample when saying that the man is young one uses ungur, but when referring to a woman one uses ung. This is because adjectives change according to the gender of the word it describes. E.g.: Maðurinn (masculine) er ung-ur. Konan (feminine) er ung-. Barnið (neutral) er ung-t.