tilbúnum

Tilbúnum is an Icelandic adjective form derived from tilbúinn, meaning “ready” or “prepared.” In Icelandic grammar, adjectives are declined to agree with the noun they modify in gender, number, and case. Tilbúnum is one of the inflected forms of tilbúinn and appears in contexts where the noun it modifies is in a specific case, most commonly in constructions that require the dative or in fixed phrases such as tilbúnum til að gera eitthvað, meaning “ready to do something.” The exact form you use depends on the noun’s gender, number, and definiteness, as well as the syntactic role of the phrase.

Etymology and usage: The word tilbúinn itself is formed from til- “towards” and búinn “ready,” with roots traceable to Old Norse. Tilbúnum has been part of Icelandic for centuries as an inflected form of the adjective that expresses preparedness for tasks, events, or situations. In modern Icelandic, tilbúinn and its various forms are common in both speech and writing when describing readiness or willingness to act.

See also: tilbúinn, Icelandic grammar, adjectives in Icelandic.

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