Vaxtabæturnar hækka.

to rise

Breakdown of Vaxtabæturnar hækka.

• vaxtabæturnar: the mortgage interest benefits

Questions & Answers about Vaxtabæturnar hækka.

Why is there no separate word for the in Vaxtabæturnar?

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.

What grammatical form is vaxtabæturnar?

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.

Is vaxtabætur a compound word?

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