Icelandic/Basic Vocabulary

Personal pronouns

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

Icelandic	English
(að) vera (ég) er (þú) ert (hann/hún/það) er (við) erum (þið) eruð (þeir/þær/þau) eru	(to) be (I) am (you) are (he/she/it) is (we) are (you) are (they) are

Examples

Icelandic	English
Ég er maður.	I am a man.
Þú ert strákur.	You are a boy.

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.

	English w.o. article	Icelandic w.o. article	English w. article	Icelandic w. article
feminine	a woman	kona	the woman.	kona-n
masculine	a man	maður	the man	maður-inn
neuter	a child	barn	the child	barn-ið

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.

Adjectives

English	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
beautiful	falleg-ur	falleg-	falleg-t
good	góð-ur	góð	gott
young	ung-ur	ung-	ung-t
old	gamal-l	gömul	gamal-t
pretty	sæt-ur	sæt-	sæt-t