There are no voiced stops b, d, g , they are pronounced as voiceless. The 'umlaut' mutation is very frequent in the language. There are weak and strong nouns, respectively adjectives can be both strong and weak. The article follows the noun. The verb is conjugated in the singular, while all plural forms are the same.
Tenses are the same as in English.
The passive is used with auxiliary verbs ver a and vera . There are three moods - the third is optative, which is unique among modern Germanic tongues. It has only one unchangeable form though. The Faroese vocabulary is rich and pure - its only loanwords are from Danish, because of the long period of Danish presence on the islands. Writing Latin alphabet Close Contacts Norwegian in the middle ages, later and now Danish.