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🇮🇸 Icelandic: Blár
🇬🇧 English: Blue
🏷️ Adjective
E X A M P L E S E N T E N C E
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Himininn er blár à kvöld.
🇬🇧 English: The sky is blue tonight.
G R A M M A R
📝 The word 'blár' is an adjective meaning 'blue'. In Icelandic, adjectives must agree with the noun they modify in gender, number, and case. 'Blár' is the masculine nominative singular definite form. The indefinite form is 'blár' (masculine), 'blá' (feminine), or 'blátt' (neuter). For example, 'blár bolli' (a blue cup), 'blá bók' (a blue book), 'blátt haf' (a blue ocean). In the definite form, it becomes 'blái' for masculine nouns (e.g., 'blái himininn' - the blue sky).