ýmis

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See also: Ýmis, and ymis

Icelandic

Etymology

From the Old Norse ýmiss.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ýmis (feminine ýmis, neuter ýmist)

  1. various

Inflection

    strong declension
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative ýmis ýmis ýmist
accusative ýmsan ýmsa ýmist
dative ýmsum ýmissi ýmsu
genitive ýmiss ýmissar ýmiss
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative ýmsir ýmsar ýmis
accusative ýmsa ýmsar ýmis
dative ýmsum ýmsum ýmsum
genitive ýmissa ýmissa ýmissa

The masculine nominative singular ýmiss also occurs. Also sometimes seen are feminine dative and genitive singular ýmissri, ýmissrar, respectively, and genitive plural ýmissra.

There is also a variant ýms, where the -i- is dropped throughout and the resulting declension is the same as of e.g. frjáls:

    strong declension (variant)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative ýms ýms ýmst
accusative ýmsan ýmsa ýmst
dative ýmsum ýmsri ýmsu
genitive ýms ýmsrar ýms
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative ýmsir ýmsar ýms
accusative ýmsa ýmsar ýms
dative ýmsum ýmsum ýmsum
genitive ýmsra ýmsra ýmsra

Occasionally this word is also used in the weak declension, usually with an article before it, and sometimes even in superlative. This is, however, proscribed by many authorities.

    weak declension
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative ýmsi ýmsa ýmsa
accusative ýmsa ýmsu ýmsa
dative ýmsa ýmsu ýmsa
genitive ýmsa ýmsu ýmsa
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative ýmsu ýmsu ýmsu
accusative ýmsu ýmsu ýmsu
dative ýmsu ýmsu ýmsu
genitive ýmsu ýmsu ýmsu
    superlative (weak declension)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative ýmsasti ýmsasta ýmsasta
accusative ýmsasta ýmsustu ýmsasta
dative ýmsasta ýmsustu ýmsasta
genitive ýmsasta ýmsustu ýmsasta
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative ýmsustu ýmsustu ýmsustu
accusative ýmsustu ýmsustu ýmsustu
dative ýmsustu ýmsustu ýmsustu
genitive ýmsustu ýmsustu ýmsustu

Derived terms

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