- Rhymes:-auː
FromOld Norseþá(“then”). The conclusive -n has fallen away in the Scandinavian dialects already in the oldest texts.
þá
- then, the past
Þá var ég ungur maður.- Then I was a young man.
- then
- Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic,English)
Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár.Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.- When Adam had lived 130 years,then he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
Þá fer ég bara!- Then I'll just leave!
Hvað gerirðuþá?- What will you dothen?
FromOld Norseþá, accusative plural masculine ofOld Norsehann(“he”).
þá
- (personal pronoun):them, accusative ofþeir(“they”) which is in turn the plural form ofhann(“him”)
Ekki drepaþá!- Don't killthem!
Þá þekki ég svo sannarlega.- I sure am familiar withthem.
Icelandic personal pronouns| singular | first person | second person | third person |
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| masculine | feminine | neuter |
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| nominative | ég,eg,ek† | þú | hann | hún,hon†,hón† | það,þat† |
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| accusative | mig,mik† | þig,þik† | hann | hana | það,þat† |
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| dative | mér | þér | honum,hánum† | henni | því |
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| genitive | mín | þín | hans | hennar | þess |
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| plural | first person | second person | third person |
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| masculine | feminine | neuter |
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| nominative | við | þið,þit† | þeir | þær | þau |
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| accusative | okkur | ykkur | þá | þær | þau |
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| dative | okkur | ykkur | þeim | þeim | þeim |
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| genitive | okkar | ykkar | þeirra | þeirra | þeirra |
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FromProto-Germanic*þawō.
þá f (genitive singularþárorþáar,nominative pluralþár)
- thaw
- þána(“to thaw out, to melt”)
- þeyja(“to thaw”)
- þeyr(“thawing weather”)
FromProto-Germanic*þan(“then”). Cognate withOld Englishþā,Old High Germandanne,Gothic𐌸𐌰𐌽(þan).
þá (notcomparable)
- then, at that time,after that
- Icelandic:þá
- Faroese:tá
- Norwegian Nynorsk:då
- Old Swedish:þā
- Danish:da
FromProto-Germanic*þǭ, accusative singular feminine ofProto-Germanic*sa(“that”). Cognate withOld Englishþā,Old Saxonthia,Old High Germandē,dea,Gothic𐌸𐍉(þō).
þá
- that(accusative singular feminine demonstrative pronoun)
Old Norse demonstrative pronouns
FromProto-Germanic*þanz, accusative plural masculine ofProto-Germanic*sa(“that”). Cognate withGothic𐌸𐌰𐌽𐍃(þans).
þá
- those(accusative plural masculine demonstrative pronoun)
- them(third-person accusative plural masculine personal pronoun)
Old Norse personal pronouns| singular | first person | second person | reflexive | third person |
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| masculine | feminine | neuter |
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| nominative | ek | þú | — | hann | hon,hón,hǫ́n | þat |
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| accusative | mik | þik | sik | hann | hana,hána | þat |
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| dative | mér | þér | sér | hánum,hónum,hǫ́num | henni | því |
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| genitive | mín | þín | sín | hans | hennar | þess |
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| dual | first person | second person | reflexive |
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| nominative | vit | it,þit | — |
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| accusative | okkr | ykkr | sik |
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| dative | okkr | ykkr | sér |
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| genitive | okkar | ykkar | sín |
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| plural | first person | second person | reflexive | third person |
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| masculine | feminine | neuter |
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| nominative | vér | ér,þér | — | þeir | þær | þau |
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| accusative | oss | yðr | sik | þá | þær | þau |
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| dative | oss | yðr | sér | þeim | þeim | þeim |
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| genitive | vár | yðar,yðvar | sín | þeira,þeirra | þeira,þeirra | þeira,þeirra |
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Old Norse demonstrative pronouns
- Icelandic:þá
- Faroese:tá(obsolete)
- Old Swedish:þā
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
þá
- first/third-personsingularpastactiveindicative ofþiggja
- Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “þá”, inAn Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press