Árlegur

árlegur is an Icelandic adjective meaning annual or yearly, describing events, reports, or processes that occur once per year. It is used in formal, administrative, and organizational contexts to indicate a yearly repetition or scope.

Etymology and usage context: The word is formed from ár, meaning year, plus the suffix -legur, which yields adjectives that denote relation or tendency. As with other Icelandic adjectives, árlegur agrees with the noun it modifies in number and gender, and appears in different inflected forms depending on sentence structure. It is commonly found in phrases describing yearly activities or records.

Common contexts and examples: In practical use, árlegur describes recurring yearly items or events. Examples of typical collocations include árlegur fundur (annual meeting), árleg uppgjör (annual settlement or financial reconciliation), and árleg gjöld (annual costs). The term is especially common in business, government, and nonprofit discourse, where annual planning, reporting, and budgeting are standard activities. In everyday language, speakers may employ more everyday alternatives in some phrases, but árlegur remains standard in formal writing and official communications.

Relation to related terms: Árlegur is part of a family of year-related terms in Icelandic, often contrasted with other temporal adjectives formed from time-related roots. For adverbial use, phrases equivalent to “annually” can be formed, such as árlega, depending on the syntactic needs of the sentence.

See also: ár, legur, annual in Icelandic usage.