Jákvæðra

Jákvæðra is the genitive plural inflection of the Icelandic adjective jákvæðr (also written jákvæð), meaning “positive” or “favorable.” In Icelandic, adjectives agree with the noun they modify for gender, number, and case, and jákvæðr takes the -ra ending in the genitive plural to form jákvæðra.

This form is used when the modified noun is in the genitive plural. It is a grammatical form, not a separate lexical item with a fixed sense. Its meaning remains “positive” or “positive-valued” depending on the noun it accompanies, and it is most commonly encountered in formal, technical, or statistical Icelandic.

Common contexts include statistical reporting, scientific writing, and policy analysis, where phrases such as jákvæðra talna (positive numbers) or jákvæðra niðurstaðna (positive results) appear. The base forms of the adjective are jákvæðr (masculine nominative singular), jákvæð (feminine nominative singular), and jákvætt (neuter nominative singular).

In practice, jákvæðra is parallel to other genitive plural adjective forms like neikvæðra, used to describe groups or sets in the genitive plural. Understanding this form helps in reading Icelandic statistical and evaluative prose where nouns are frequently treated in the genitive.

See also: jákvæðr, jákvæð, jákvætt, neikvæðr, neikvæð.