viðburða

Viðburða is the genitive plural form of the Icelandic noun viðburður, which translates roughly as event, occurrence, or happening. In Icelandic, viðburður refers to something that takes place, and the word is used across everyday language, calendars, schedules, and descriptions of incidents as well as in more formal contexts such as probability theory where an event is a possible outcome in a sample space. The genitive plural form viðburða is used to indicate possession or quantity of events, or to mark genitive case in constructions that involve multiple events.

Grammatical forms help place viðburð as a model for its declension: singular nominative viðburður; plural nominative viðburðir; singular accusative viðburð; plural accusative viðburði; singular dative viðburði; plural dative viðburðum; genitive plural viðburða. The form viðburða is therefore most common after numerals or in phrases that require genitive, for example fjöldi viðburða (a number of events) or einkenni viðburða (characteristics of events). It also appears in phrases describing relationships with events, such as dagskrá viðburða (program of events) in certain word orders.

In everyday use, viðburður and its forms cover a wide range of meanings from social gatherings and cultural happenings to the abstract notion of a probabilistic event. The term is closely related to atburður, a synonym in many contexts, though usage can vary by style and domain.