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How To Say ‘How Are You?’ In Icelandic & Common Responses

In this post, you will learn how to say ‘how are you?’ in Icelandic. You’ll also learn common responses so you can respond if you’re asked this question. This can be really useful if you’re speaking with someone from Iceland or if you’re travelling there. 

Icelandic is a North Germanic language spoken in Iceland. There are approximately 314,000 speakers of Icelandic, most of which live in Iceland where it is a national language.

How To Say ‘How Are You?’ In Icelandic

There are a few different ways to ask ‘how are you?’. I’ve listed the most common below.

Where possible, I have included audio links so you can hear the pronunciation by a native speaker. I’ve also included a pronunciation guide using English sounds which is as close as possible to the sounds in Icelandic.

EnglishIcelandicPronunciation
How are you?Hvað segirðu gott?Kvadth sey-ir-thu goht
How are you?Hvað segirðu?Kvadth sey-ir-thu
How are you?Hvernig hefurðu það?Hver-nig hefur-thu tha

Check out the video below to hear the pronunciation of some of these phrases by a native speaker:

How To Respond To ‘How Are You?’ In Icelandic

There are many different ways that you can reply to this question. Below are the most common responses to this question. I’ve also included how to say ‘thank you’ as it’s polite to thank someone if they ask how you are.

EnglishIcelandicPronunciation
Thank youÞakka þérThak-ka ther
ThanksTakkTak
I’m fineAllt gottAtlt goht
I’m very wellBara allt mjög gott Bara atlt myuhg goht
I’m good (male speaker)GóðurGo-thur
I’m good (female speaker)GóðGoth
I’m bad/not good (male speaker)VondurVon-duhr
I’m bad/not good (female speaker)VondVond
I’m sick (male speaker)Ég er veikurYeh er vey-kur
I’m sick (female speaker)Ég er veikYeh er veyk

Check out the video below to hear the pronunciation of some of these phrases:

It’s also useful to know how to say ‘and you?’ or ‘what about you?’ to find out how someone else is if they ask you.

EnglishIcelandicPronunciation
And you?En þú?En thu

Example Conversation:

Person 1: Hvað segirðu gott? (How are you?)

Person 2: Allt gott, þakka þér. En þú? (I’m fine, thank you. And you?)

Person 1: Allt gott (I’m fine)


Thanks for reading this post. 

You should now know how to say ‘how are you?’ in Icelandic and you should also be able to respond if you’re asked! 

You can’t go wrong with these simple phrases. 

If you’re speaking to someone special then you’ll want to know how to say I love you in Icelandic.

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