Questions & Answers about Vaxtabæturnar hækka.
Because Icelandic usually puts the definite article onto the noun as an ending, instead of using a separate word like English the.
So:
- vaxtabætur = interest benefits / mortgage interest benefits
- vaxtabæturnar = the interest benefits
Here the ending -nar is the definite article.
Vaxtabæturnar is:
- plural
- feminine
- definite
- nominative in this sentence
It is nominative because it is the subject of the verb hækka.
The basic indefinite form is vaxtabætur. In this meaning, this word is normally used in the plural.
Yes. It is a compound:
- vaxta-
- bætur
This is very common in Icelandic. The last part of the compound is usually the main noun, and that is the part that gets inflected for things like the definite article.
So:
- vaxtabætur = the indefinite compound
- vaxtabæturnar = the same compound with the definite article added at the end