Enginn kemur núna.

Enginn means no one / nobody here. It is an indefinite negative pronoun, used when you want to say that zero people are doing something.

In this sentence, enginn is the subject:

• Enginn = nobody
• kemur = comes / is coming
• núna = now

So the structure is very direct: Nobody is coming now.

Kemur is the 3rd person singular present tense of the verb koma (to come).

That form is used because enginn is grammatically singular:

• ég kem = I come
• þú kemur = you come
• hann/hún/það kemur = he/she/it comes
• enginn kemur = no one comes / nobody is coming

Even though enginn refers to the absence of people in general, grammatically it behaves like a singular subject, so the verb is singular too.

Because enginn already contains the negative meaning no one.

So:

• Enginn kemur núna. = No one is coming now.

You do not normally say Enginn kemur ekki núna to mean the same thing. That would not be the normal way to express this idea.

A useful comparison:

• Einhver kemur núna. = Someone is coming now.
• Enginn kemur núna. = No one is coming now.

So the negation is built into enginn itself.

Here, enginn is in the nominative singular, because it is the subject of the sentence.

The verb koma takes a nominative subject, so the subject appears in nominative case:

• Enginn kemur núna.

If enginn were used in a different grammatical role, it could appear in a different case form.

Yes. Enginn declines for gender, number, and case, just like many Icelandic pronouns and adjectives.

In this sentence, you see the masculine nominative singular form: enginn.

Some related nominative singular forms are:

• enginn = no one / none (masculine)
• engin = no one / none (feminine)
• ekkert = nothing / no (neuter)

For example:

• Enginn kemur. = No one comes.
• Engin kona kemur. = No woman comes.
• Ekkert gerist. = Nothing happens.

So yes, the form changes depending on what it refers to and what role it has in the sentence.

When Icelandic uses enginn by itself to mean no one / nobody, the masculine singular form is commonly used as the default personal form.

That does not necessarily mean it refers only to men. It often works like a general no one.

This is something English speakers often notice because English does not mark gender in no one. Icelandic often does, because pronouns and related words are more grammatically inflected.

They are very close in meaning. Both can mean now, but núna is often felt as a bit more conversational or immediate in everyday speech.

So:

• nú = now
• núna = now

In many contexts, either one works:

• Enginn kemur núna.
• Enginn kemur nú.

Both are natural, though núna is very common in spoken Icelandic.

Yes, Icelandic word order is somewhat flexible, though the basic order here is very normal:

• Enginn kemur núna.

You can also move núna for emphasis:

• Núna kemur enginn.

That still means roughly No one is coming now, but the emphasis shifts a bit toward now.

A learner should treat Enginn kemur núna as the safest neutral order.

The Icelandic present tense often covers several meanings that English splits up.

So kemur can mean:

• comes
• is coming
• sometimes even will come, depending on context

In Enginn kemur núna, the most natural English meaning is usually:

• No one is coming now.

But grammatically, Icelandic is simply using the present tense.

A rough learner-friendly pronunciation is:

• ENG-in KYEH-mur NOO-na

A few notes:

• g in Enginn is not pronounced like a strong English g in every environment.
• e in kemur is not the same as English ee.
• ú is like a long oo sound.
• Stress in Icelandic usually falls on the first syllable of each word:
  • ENGinn
  • KEMur
  • NÚna

If you want to sound natural, focus especially on first-syllable stress.

Yes, it is completely natural and idiomatic.

It is a simple, everyday way to say:

• No one is coming now
• Nobody is coming now

It sounds neutral and normal in both speech and writing.

Yes, you can. Það kemur enginn núna is also natural.

The extra það is an expletive or dummy subject, similar to English there or sometimes it in certain structures. The sentence still means:

• No one is coming now.

Compare:

• Enginn kemur núna.
• Það kemur enginn núna.

Both are correct. The version without það is more direct; the version with það can sound a little more like There’s no one coming now in English.

The dictionary form is koma, meaning to come.

So if you look it up, you would search for koma, not kemur.

A few useful forms are:

• koma = to come
• kem = I come
• kemur = comes / is coming
• kom = came
• komið = come (past participle in some uses)

This is a very common verb, so it is worth learning early.