svipur – Icelandic noun declension

Icelandic noun forms of svipur

Noun: svipur
Gender: m
Declension:

Nominative

Sg. Indef.svipur
Sg. Def.svipurinn
Pl. Indef.svipir
Pl. Def.svipirnir

Genitive

Sg. Indef.svips
Sg. Def.svipsins
Pl. Indef.svipa
Pl. Def.svipanna

Dative

Sg. Indef.svip
Sg. Def.svipnum
Pl. Indef.svipum
Pl. Def.svipunum

Accusative

Sg. Indef.svip
Sg. Def.svipinn
Pl. Indef.svipi
Pl. Def.svipina

Sample Sentences

  • þungur á svip (with a serious face)
  • Börnin mín eiga það til að horfa á mig, glottandi á svip, og gera einmitt það sem þau vita að þau mega ekki. (My children tend to look at me, grinning at me, and do the very thing they know they can't do.)
  • Þegar Alþingi kemur saman á ný ber það annan svip en áður. (When Parliament meets again, it will look different than before.)
  • Að aftan sést berlega hve hár hann er en lítil afturrúðan ljær honum sportlegan svip en skerðir þó útsýnið úr baksýnisspegli. (From the back, you can clearly see how tall it is, but the small rear window gives it a sporty look, but it does cut the view from the rearview mirror.) [2014 November 4, Finnur Thorlacius, “Fjölnotabíll með mögnuð akstursgæði”, in Vísir, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2025:]
  • það er svipur með þeim (they look a bit like each other)
  • ekki nema svipur hjá sjón (a shadow of one's former self)
  • í svipinn (at the moment)
  • í svip (for a moment)

Etymology

From Old Norse svipr (“quick movement; expression; moment; loss”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk and Danish svip (“appearance”), Swedish svep (“moment”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *swipaz (with change of inflection) and cognate with English (dialectal) swip (“exact image”), and Middle High German swif (“quick movement”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'svipr', Danish Nouns 'svip'.

Verbs referencing "svipur"

Swedish Nouns svepskäl.

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