Learn Icelandic On the Web - Lesson Two Lesson Two - Annar Kafli   Here are three Icelandic sentences. Maður er ríkur. Strákur er ungur. Hnífur er langur. Menn eru ríkir. Strákar eru ungir. Hnífar eru langir. Men are rich. Boys are young. Knives are long. We see several new forms on our familiar masculine words. From the English glosses, we can tell that these sentences are plural. er appears to have changed into eru, so it must mean "are." The nouns now end in -ar and the adjectives in -ir, except for the word menn. It appears to be a form similar to "man/men" in English. There is still no indefinite article; but then, there isn't one in English in such sentences either. The word order is still similar to that of English. Let's go on and examine the feminine forms. Kona er rík. Stelpa er ung. Saga er löng. Konur eru ríkar. Stelpur eru ungar. Sögur eru langar. Women are rich. Girls are young. Sagas are long. These show even more distinctive forms. The word eru remains unmarked for gender. These nouns all end in -ur and the adjectives in -ar. The plural form of saga has an ö. This will be explained later. The neuter forms show the most differences in the plural. HÅ›s er gult. Barn er ungt. Skip er langt. HÅ›s eru gul. Börn eru ung. Skip eru löng.