Stöðugan

Stöðugan is the masculine accusative singular form of the Icelandic adjective stöðugur, meaning stable, steady, or constant. It is used to describe a masculine singular noun when the noun is in the accusative case, such as when it is the direct object of a sentence or part of a fixed expression. In Icelandic, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify for gender, number, and case, and stöðugan is one of the inflected forms that result from that agreement.

The word stems from the base stöðug- in stöðugur, which conveys reliability, firmness, and continuity. It has cognates in other North Germanic languages, such as Danish stabil and Swedish stabil, and shares roots with the common semantic field of stability in many Indo-European languages.

In usage, stöðugan is typically found in more formal or descriptive contexts, and it can describe physical stability, financial or organizational steadiness, or consistency over time, depending on the noun it modifies.

Related forms include stöðugur (masculine nominative), stöðugt (neuter or adverbial form), and stöðugleiki meaning stability.