Merkisdagar (Vocabulary for 5/29/2002)


Í dag er "Memorial Day" í Bandaríkjunum. Hér eru nokkur orð yfir hátíðir og merkisdaga á íslensku.

Today is Memorial Day in the US. Here are some words for holidays in Icelandic.

Bolludagur (m.) - "Bun Day"
Sumardagurinn fyrsti (m.) - first day of Summer
Jól (n. pl.) - Christmas
Nýársdagur (m.) - New Year's Day
Páskar (m. pl.) - Easter
Sjómannadagur (m.) - first Sunday in June (a celebration for sailors)
Verslunarmannahelgi (f.) - Labor day
Þjóðhátíðardagur (m.) - Icelandic Independence Day (17. júní)
Þrettándakvöld (n.) - the last day of Christmas

I like to practice by listening to Icelandic radio at <http://www.ruv.is/>. Sometimes you can even watch television; once I saw an American movie with Icelandic
subtitles. It'd be particularly useful to see a movie in Icelandic with English subtitles, but that wouldn't make any sense :)

Gleðilega hátíð,
Jon

Thanks to Ásta for comments and corrections on this post.

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