tilfelli

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tilfelli see there for more. Cognate with Swedish tillfälle, Norwegian Bokmål tilfelle, Norwegian Nynorsk tilfelle, Danish tilfælde. Compare German Zufall (“chance, coincidence”).

Noun

tilfelli n (genitive singular tilfellis, nominative plural tilfelli)

1. case, instance, circumstance

Declension

Declension of tilfelli (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tilfelli	tilfellið	tilfelli	tilfellin
accusative	tilfelli	tilfellið	tilfelli	tilfellin
dative	tilfelli	tilfellinu	tilfellum	tilfellunum
genitive	tilfellis	tilfellisins	tilfella	tilfellanna

References

• Blöndal, Sigfús; Björg Þorláksdóttir Blöndal; Jón Ófeigsson; Holger Wiehe (1924), “tilfelli”, in Íslensk-Dönsk Orðabók / Islandsk-Dansk Ordbog‎ (in Danish), Reykjavík: Prentsmiðjan Gutenberg