Faroese and Icelandic

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Transfer

Indefinite article

  • Icelandic has no indefinite article, but Faroese does.

Genitive noun phrases

  • With nouns denoting family relationships an adnominal accusative form is normally used instead of a genitive or prepositional one

Subjunctive

  • There is no subjunctive in Faroese, but there is in Icelandic. The standard past tense can be used, or various constructions with modal verbs.

Questions

  • Tense mapping:
    • Do all auxiliaries / modals match 1:1 ?

See also

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