The genitive case is the least frequently used of the four cases, but that's no excuse to slack off. Learn how genitive nouns differ from pronoun possessors and fulfil your life's purpose of learning all the Icelandic!

Learn the mysteries of the Icelandic sinn, impress your friends, woo you crush, and finally experience the nirvana-like state of understanding this confusing word!

Learn about his and her and everything in between!

Mine, my own, my precious! Gollum knew the importance of drawing clear boundaries around what's yours, and you should, too! Learn to use the words minn and þinn so you can tell the cops it's not your illegal substance, it's THEIRS!

I don't shift, you shift! Have you noticed how a seemingly random "u" pops up in many words and wondered what it's doing there? Well, wonder no more!

"a" is a letter of many hats. It likes to dress up as a "u", but why? Because of u-shift, that's why!

Do you sometimes say that you have your friends when you mean you're with them, and that you're with a hostage when you mean you have him? Clarify your understanding of "með" so the cops can understand you more clearly!

The difference between riding your bike to school and riding it around the halls at school is one small case difference. Learn the difference between the accusative and dative with these prepositions!

You're probably using í and fyrir wrong. Don't worry: everybody does, at some point. Let's set these confusing prepositions straight!

Who's on first? Does this article finally answer the age-old question posed by Abbot and Costello back in 1938? No, obviously not, but it helps to learn about verb second word order!

Welcome to Icelandic 101, day 1 hour 0, square one, baby's first steps. Basic word order awaits!

Dictionary shorthand: the original text speak? No, obviously not, but still important to learn!

If I had a króna for every time I'm asked about how cases work I wouldn't need a day job. Learn the basics of this popular topic now!

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Learn about Icelandic comparisons!

Quick question: are you attached to your kidneys? Learn how to explain that to Icelandic organ harvesters!

Is this car-the his John's? Icelandic possession can sound like alphabet soup gone wrong, but you can master it!

Verbs that don't change, dative sickness, and the language police: Impersonal verbs are an interesting topic.

In Icelandic word order, everything revolves around this one principle: V2.

Cases are hard. We make them easier with this instalment in our series on Cases