atburðar

Atburðar is the genitive singular form of the Icelandic noun atburður, which means "event" or "occurrence." In ordinary usage, atburður is the nominative form, while atburðar appears in contexts that require a genitive construction to show possession or association.

In practice, atburðar occurs most often in compounds and phrases that describe relationships involving an event. A common example is atburðarás, meaning the arc or sequence of events in a narrative or process. It can also appear in phrases such as framkvæmd atburðarins, meaning the execution or handling of the event, where the definite genitive -ins marks a specific event.

Etymology and history: atburður derives from Old Norse atburðr, and the genitive singular form atburðar reflects this historic development. The term and its inflected form are still standard in contemporary Icelandic, especially in formal writing, literary analysis, history, and journalism when precise grammatical relation to an event must be expressed.

See also: atburður, atburðarás.