Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby PeterthePan » 2011-03-10, 19:30

Hetta orðaskiftið er ikki serliga virkið ha ?

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby deardron » 2011-08-03, 0:20

Ja, nú skal man lívga tað eitt sindur upp ;)

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby hlysnan » 2011-09-15, 10:22

Hey guys, I was just listening to kvæðir, which I must admit, are supercool. Perhaps you might be familiar with Ormurinn Langi? I'm not learning Faroese (although I might in the not so near future) but I have a curious question, which might sound a bit silly - I don't know.

Anyway, the first stanza of Ormurin Langi goes:

Viljið tær hoyra kvæði mítt,
viljið tær orðum trugva,
um hann Ólav Trygvason,
og hagar skal ríman snúgva.


A translation of this goes:

Would you like to hear my song,
would you believe my words?
About king Olaf Tryggveson,
the subject of this song.


So I'm wondering, "tær" is apparently in dative case, but would that first line be appropriate in modern speech in this context, or is it poetic licence?

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby deardron » 2011-09-15, 17:22

Tær kann eisini merkja 'they' í kvenkyni í føroyskum, men í hesum tiltikna kvæði er tað sikkurt fornnorska persónsfornavnið þér (í 2. persóni fleirtali).

Tær can also means 'they' fem. in Faroese, but in this particular stanza it's obviously the Old Norse pronoun þér (2. pl.).

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Postby Hunef » 2011-09-15, 21:57

Yeah, it's the second personal plural and it's a remnant of the cognate of East Norse I (Dan., Dial. Swe.), ni (Stand. Swe.) from Old East Norse íR without vowel opening í > é or added þ-. (Standard Swedish ni from I is analogous to how Old West Norse þér is derived from an older ér, i.e., part of the verb is added.)
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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby hlysnan » 2011-09-16, 0:34

Wow, I didn't expect such fast replies! Thanks for clearing it up! :)

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Postby Swienegel » 2011-09-20, 13:40

Hey!
Eg eri úr Týsklandi og eg var í føroyska summarskeiðinum 2011 í Frøðskaparsetrinum :)
Tað var sooo ræðuliga gott! Eg viti nú, at føroyskt er óføra vakurt mál. Vit hava lært øðiliga nógv. Eg veit ikke, hvussu eg kan læra meir føroyskt men eg skal gera tað endiliga!

Sorry for my crappy faroese :X Eg vóni, at føroyskt - týskt orðabók kemur skjótt^^

@hlysnan: Forget Ormurin langi, listen to Flóvin Bænadiktsson. That one has such a catchy refrain :whistle:

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby Paajja » 2011-10-16, 18:36

Hey, eg eiti Paajja og eg eri kekkiskur. Eg búgvi í Brno. Eg royni at læra føroyskt.

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Postby deardron » 2011-10-18, 23:35

Paajja wrote:Hey, eg eiti Paajja og eg eri kekkiskur. Eg búgvi í Brno. Eg royni at læra føroyskt.

Vælkomin! Vit hava her ein drong sum dugir væl slovakiskt ;)

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby Mulder-21 » 2011-10-31, 0:28

Vælkomin til henda tráðin, Swienegel og Paajja.

Eg eri lokali moderatorurin her, men eg eri tíverri ikki so aktivur, sum eg átti at verið, men eg hyggi innar soleiðis av og á.

Swienegel: Tað gleðir meg, at tær dámdi málskeiðið, ið Fróskaparsetri skipar fyri annað hvørt ár, og eg vóni, at tú fekst nógv burtur úr tí. :)

Paajja: Brno. Vakur býur, tíverri havi eg bara koyrt ígjøgnum hann á náttartíð og eg var í einum toki. :oops: Men eg dugi slovakskt, so um tú hevur spurningar um føroyskt, so kanst tú eisini spyrja á kekskum/moravskum.

Deardron: drong? :lol:

Annars: Flóvin Bænadiktsson er vorðin ein sovorðin klisje, tí hetta kvæðið verður kvøðið á næstan øllum brúdleypum. :lol: So eg fegnist, hvørja ferð eg hoyri okkurt annað. :)

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby Paajja » 2011-10-31, 17:28

Hey Mulder-21 og Swienegel,

Eg tosi og skrivi ikki føroyskt av tí at eg byrjaði. I am very glad that there is the Faroese discussion forum like that. I started learning Faroese few weeks ago and now I am in Lesson 2, that is why I am not still able to write longer sentences in F. But it will be better soon. I hope I will have more time for learning.

To Mulder: Slovenčina je naozaj pekný jazyk a ja ako Čech dobre rozumiem. Slovenčina a čeština sú si blízke ako dánčina, nórština aj švédština. Ja som bol vo Švédsku a v písomnej forme rozumiem aj dánsky a nórsky. No nehovorim dánsky, je to pre mňa veľmi ťažké :-) A tu prvy raz v mojom živote píšem po slovensky :-)

To Swienegel: Vielen Dank und ich hoffe, dass wir können bald Färöisch miteinander sprechen oder schreiwen :-) Entschuldigung für mein Deutsch. Ich habe nach langer Zeit Deutsch wiedergesprochen, wenn ich im September in Köln und Essen (und Ruhrgebiet) war. Deutschland ist sehr schönes Land und Leute sind nett und tolerant :-)

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby deardron » 2011-10-31, 19:02

Mulder-21 wrote:málskeiðið, ið Fróskaparsetri skipar fyri

Fróðskaparsetrið ;)

Mulder-21 wrote:Deardron: drong? :lol:

Ein álvarsaman og royndan mann :D

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby gwrhkhsh » 2011-11-06, 21:27

Góðan dagin, fólk!

Eg eiti Piotrek og eri póllendingur. Eg dugi at tósa føroyskt ikki væl, men vil fegin at læra. Eg eri nýggjur har, so veit ikki hvar skal eg skriva tað: kann onkur siga mær, er tað rætt?

"Um høvðu vit leikað okkurt, tit kundu taka tað niður."

Takk!

And please, could somebody point out the mistakes? ;)
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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby Unknown » 2011-11-21, 15:48

I'll leave the corrections to the natives. ;)
Last edited by Unknown on 2011-11-22, 12:38, edited 2 times in total.

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby Johanna » 2011-11-21, 21:00

Cesare M, I think you should keep away from correcting other people's Faroese ;) Mine isn't good, but I can see a couple of mistakes in your correction, for example you changed a perfectly fine 'veit' into an incorrect 'viti'.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vita#Faroese

And Faroese does have 'skal', it's the first and third person singular form in the present tense of the verb 'skula'.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skula#Faroese

So I suggest that you leave it to the native speaker(s) :)
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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby Mulder-21 » 2011-11-21, 23:22

gwrhkhsh wrote:Góðan dagin, fólk!

Eg eiti Piotrek og eri póllendingur. Eg dugi ikki væl at tosa føroyskt, men eg vil fegin at læra meira. Eg eri nýggjur har, so veit ikki hvar skal eg skriva tað: kann onkur siga mær, er tað rætt?

"Um høvðu vit leikað okkurt, tit kundu taka tað niður."


Takk!

And please, could somebody point out the mistakes? ;)


Witaj, Piotrku. :)

Red are serious errors, and green more like syntax errors or minor errors. Blue is something I had no idea what you wanted to say. :)

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby Johanna » 2011-11-22, 9:36

Mulder-21 wrote:
gwrhkhsh wrote:Eg eri nýggjur har, so veit ikki hvar skal eg skriva tað: kann onkur siga mær, er tað rætt?

Blue is something I had no idea what you wanted to say.

Maybe 'I'm new here, so I don't know where to write this. Can anyone tell me, is it correct / in the right place?'

Those are the only alternatives that makes sense to me at least.
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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby Mulder-21 » 2011-11-22, 10:05

Johanna wrote:
Mulder-21 wrote:
gwrhkhsh wrote:Eg eri nýggjur har, so veit ikki hvar skal eg skriva tað: kann onkur siga mær, er tað rætt?

Blue is something I had no idea what you wanted to say.

Maybe 'I'm new here, so I don't know where to write this. Can anyone tell me, is it correct / in the right place?'

Those are the only alternatives that makes sense to me at least.


Oh, right yes, sounds logical:

Eg eri nýggjur her, so eg veit ikki, hvar eg skal skriva hetta? Kann onkur siga mær, um hetta er rætta staðið?
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Hosťovo oko je múdre. (Faerské uslovie)

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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby gwrhkhsh » 2011-11-25, 14:55

Thanks for your answers!

Yes, that was what I wanted to write. The everpresent 'eg' is something I can't get used to, and the 'tað / hetta' is confusing for me as well. Is there any simple rule for that?

And the other sentence was meant to be something along the lines of 'If we had played something, you would be able to download it'. Or something similar.
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Re: Faroese discussion group - Orðaskifti um føroyskt

Postby Unknown » 2011-11-28, 21:57

Góðan dag, fólk. Oraska meg av reypa at eg tosar væl føroyskt. Eg megni ikki væl at tosa føroyskt, men eg vil at nýta mitt føroyskt, og eg vóni at verða godt í føroyskt. So, um eg havi mistøk, hevði tit vinarliga kunna rætta meg? Eg havi nógv mótmælat; í fyrsta lagi, kunnu fólk í Føroyum skilja svenskur? Tak.


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