skorta
Appearance
Icelandic
[edit]Verb
[edit]skorta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative skorti, supine skort)
- (impersonal) to cause to lack (to cause to experience a shortcoming of) [with accusative ‘someone’ (preceding) and accusative ‘something’ (following)] (idiomatically translated as "lack" with the preceding accusative object as the subject)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive nafnháttur | að skorta | |||||
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supine sagnbót | skort | |||||
present participle |
skortandi | |||||
indicative |
subjunctive | |||||
present |
past |
present |
past | |||
singular | ég | skorti | skorti | skorti | skorti | |
þú | skortir | skortir | skortir | skortir | ||
hann, hún, það | skortir | skorti | skorti | skorti | ||
plural | við | skortum | skortum | skortum | skortum | |
þið | skortið | skortuð | skortið | skortuð | ||
þeir, þær, þau | skorta | skortu | skorti | skortu | ||
imperative boðháttur | ||||||
singular | þú | skort (þú), skortu | ||||
plural | þið | skortið (þið), skortiði1 |
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Further reading
[edit]- “skorta” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)