Thank you very much for your response :)

Does the "Old Norse for Beginners" lesson later introduce the definite
strong masculine declension of adjectives? You have partially listed
it in your reponse, but if not in the lesson, what are the plural forms?

Thanks again

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Haukur Thorgeirsson
<haukurth@...> wrote:

>
> Hinn 21. nóvember 2005 lét kunphuzil þetta frá sér fara:
> > In exercise 3.2 of lesson 3 it asks to translate
> >
> > "Do you two eat the whole cheese?"
> >
> > into Old Norse. Though, previously it was said
> >
> > "The definite declension of adjectives is not presented here yet,
> > since it is modelled on a noun declension not yet introduced."
> >
> > How then can one perform this exercise lacking the knowledge of the
> > definite declension for adjectives?
>
> Good question. You're supposed to use the indefinite form here,

though that may not be clear from the explanations in the lessons. I
honestly don't remember those lessons very well. It's been a long time
since we wrote them...

>
> nom. allr ostrinn
> acc. allan ostinn
>
> (= all the cheese)
>
> The pronoun/adjective "allr" never takes the indefinite form. I

don't know why :)

>
> Kveðja,
> Haukur
>