Gott samband þýðir að við skipuleggjum helgar og frídaga saman.

A good relationship means that we plan weekends and days off together.

Breakdown of Gott samband þýðir að við skipuleggjum helgar og frídaga saman.

• við: we
• saman: together
• gott: good
• og: and

Questions & Answers about Gott samband þýðir að við skipuleggjum helgar og frídaga saman.

What exactly does samband mean here? Is it more like relationship or connection?

In this sentence, gott samband is best translated as a good relationship.

Samband is a neuter noun that can mean:

• connection / link (technical or abstract):
  
  • Símasamband – phone connection
• relationship / bond between people:
  
  • Þau eiga gott samband – They have a good relationship

Here, because the sentence is about planning weekends and holidays together, samband clearly refers to the quality of the relationship between people, not e.g. a phone signal.

Why is it gott samband and not góð samband or góður samband?

Adjectives in Icelandic agree with the gender, number and case of the noun they describe.

• Samband is:
  • neuter
  • singular
  • nominative case (it’s the subject of the sentence)

The adjective góður (good) has different forms:

• masculine nominative singular: góður
• feminine nominative singular: góð
• neuter nominative singular: gott

Since samband is neuter nominative singular, the correct form is gott samband.