Atburðum

Atburðum is the Icelandic dative plural form of the masculine noun atburður, which means event or occurrence. The base form is atburður; the plural nominative is atburðir, while the dative plural is atburðum. This form is used when the noun appears in the dative case, typically after prepositions or in constructions that require the dative.

Usage and context

In modern Icelandic the dative case is less prominent in everyday speech, but it remains part of the grammar and is found in formal writing, historical texts, and certain fixed expressions. The form atburðum appears when referring to multiple events in contexts that call for the dative, such as indirect objects, complements of certain prepositions, or stylistic phrasing that preserves older grammatical constructions.

Declension notes

The noun atburður is masculine. In plural, the nominative form is atburðir, and the dative plural is atburðum. Knowing the dative plural helps in understanding sentence structure and agreement in Icelandic texts that preserve the older case system.

See also

atburður, atburðir