Persónuafslátturinn er forskráður.

The personal tax credit is pre-entered.

Breakdown of Persónuafslátturinn er forskráður.

• vera: to be
• persónuafslátturinn: the personal tax credit
• forskráður: pre-entered

Questions & Answers about Persónuafslátturinn er forskráður.

Why is Persónuafslátturinn written as one long word?

Icelandic very often forms compound nouns by joining elements into a single word.

Here, Persónuafslátturinn is built from:

• persónu- = related to person
• afsláttur = discount, allowance, or deduction
• -inn = the suffixed definite article, meaning the

So the core compound is persónuafsláttur, and then Icelandic adds -inn to mean the personal tax credit / the personal allowance.

This kind of long compound is extremely common in Icelandic.

What does the ending -inn mean in Persónuafslátturinn?

The ending -inn is the definite article, equivalent to English the.

Instead of putting a separate word before the noun, Icelandic often attaches the article directly to the noun:

• afsláttur = a discount / discount
• afslátturinn = the discount

So:

• persónuafsláttur = personal tax credit / personal allowance
• persónuafslátturinn = the personal tax credit / the personal allowance

This is one of the biggest structural differences from English.

Why does the word begin with persónu- instead of ?