Learn Hardcore Icelandic: Nýja leikfangið er mjög fyndið.

Gender: <a class="border-b border-dotted border-blue-400 dark:border-blue-500 cursor-pointer text-inherit no-underline" href="/grammar/icelandic/nouns/gender-overview">neuter
Number: singular
Case: <a class="border-b border-dotted border-blue-400 dark:border-blue-500 cursor-pointer text-inherit no-underline" href="/grammar/icelandic/nouns/case-overview">nominative (it’s the subject of the sentence)

In Icelandic, “the” is usually a suffix on the noun, not a separate word as in English. For neuter nouns in the nominative singular, the definite ending is -ið.

So leikfangið literally means toy-the, i.e. the toy.

Why is it nýja leikfangið and not nýtt leikfangið or nýr leikfangið?