búinn
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Icelandic
[edit]Adjective
[edit]búinn (comparative búnari, superlative búnastur)
- completed, finished, over
- Ertu búinn að fara út með ruslið?
- Did you take out the trash?
- Er myndin búin?
- Is the film over?
- depleted, finished
- Því miður, kaffið er búið.
- I'm afraid we don't have any more coffee.
- exhausted
- fitted out, fitted up, ready
- Hersveitin var vel vopnum búin.
- The squadron was heavily armed.
- Hún er vel búin.
- She's warmly dressed.
Inflection
[edit] positive (strong declension)
positive (weak declension)
comparative
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | búnari | búnari | búnara |
accusative | búnari | búnari | búnara |
dative | búnari | búnari | búnara |
genitive | búnari | búnari | búnara |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | búnari | búnari | búnari |
accusative | búnari | búnari | búnari |
dative | búnari | búnari | búnari |
genitive | búnari | búnari | búnari |
superlative (strong declension)
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | búnastur | búnust | búnast |
accusative | búnastan | búnasta | búnast |
dative | búnustum | búnastri | búnustu |
genitive | búnasts | búnastrar | búnasts |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | búnastir | búnastar | búnust |
accusative | búnasta | búnastar | búnust |
dative | búnustum | búnustum | búnustum |
genitive | búnastra | búnastra | búnastra |
superlative (weak declension)
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | búnasti | búnasta | búnasta |
accusative | búnasta | búnustu | búnasta |
dative | búnasta | búnustu | búnasta |
genitive | búnasta | búnustu | búnasta |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | búnustu | búnustu | búnustu |
accusative | búnustu | búnustu | búnustu |
dative | búnustu | búnustu | búnustu |
genitive | búnustu | búnustu | búnustu |
Synonyms
[edit]- (fitted out): útbúinn
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
- að svo búnu (after that, with that being done)
- búinn að vera (to be finished, to be over)
- búinn við einhverju (to be prepared for something)
- illa í stakk búinn til einhvers (to be badly prepared to do something)
- vel í stakk búinn til einhvers (to be well prepared to do something)
- búinn á því
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “búinn” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Past participle of búa.
Participle
[edit]búinn
Declension
[edit] Strong declension of búinn
Weak declension of búinn
References
[edit]- búinn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.