Góðar

Góðar is the Icelandic feminine plural form of the adjective góður, meaning “good.” It is used to describe feminine plural nouns, for example góðar konur, which means “good women.” In Icelandic, adjectives agree with the gender and number of the nouns they modify, so the feminine plural form góðar is used with feminine plural nouns. The word can be used attributively before a noun (góðar konur) and predicatively after a linking verb (Konurnar eru góðar – The women are good).

Origin and form: góður comes from Old Norse góðr, related to Proto-Germanic *gōdaz. Góðar is the feminine plural form; the feminine singular form is góð. Icelandic adjectives inflect for gender and number, so forms vary to match the noun they describe.

Usage notes: as with other Icelandic adjectives, góðar commonly appears before the noun it modifies, but it also functions in predicative position after verbs like vera (to be). It is widely used in everyday language as well as in literature to express quality or virtue in feminine plural subjects.