Breakdown of Framtalsleiðbeiningarnar eru skýrar.
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Because Icelandic very often makes compound nouns by joining words together.
Here, framtal + leiðbeiningar becomes framtalsleiðbeiningar, literally something like interview-guidelines.
This is completely normal in Icelandic. Where English often uses separate words, Icelandic often prefers one compound word:
- skóli = school
- bók = book
- skólabók = schoolbook
So Framtalsleiðbeiningarnar is not unusually complicated for Icelandic; it is just a compound noun with the definite article attached.
That -s- is a very common linking/genitive element in Icelandic compounds.
The first part is based on framtal. In the compound, it appears as framtals-, which is like of an interview / interview-related.
So:
- framtal = interview
- framtals- = interview-, of an interview
- framtalsleiðbeiningar = interview guidelines
English usually shows this relationship with separate words, but Icelandic often shows it inside the compound itself.