þínir
Þínir is the second-person plural possessive determiner in Icelandic, meaning “yours” when referring to something belonging to the people addressed. It is used directly before a noun to mark possession and agrees with the noun in gender and number. The form þínir is the masculine plural nominative and accusative, as in þínir vinir, “your friends.”
Because Icelandic possessive determiners decline by gender and number, other forms exist for different head nouns.
Etymology and history: Þínir derives from the older Icelandic/Old Norse second-person possessive base þín, connected to
In summary, þínir functions as a growingly common possessive determiner in modern Icelandic, used to attribute