Enginn vill deyja.

Here enginn means no one or nobody.

It is a negative pronoun, so Icelandic does not need a separate word like not in this sentence. In other words:

• Enginn vill deyja. = No one wants to die.

Compare that with English, where you also use a negative subject: Nobody wants to die.

Enginn changes form for gender, number, and case.

In this sentence it is the subject, so it is in the nominative singular. The form enginn is the masculine nominative singular form.

That masculine singular form is very often used when referring to no one in a general sense, especially when no specific person or noun is named.

Related forms include:

• enginn — masculine
• engin — feminine
• ekkert — neuter

So if you are talking generally about people, enginn is a very normal form to see.

Because enginn is grammatically singular.

Even though the meaning refers to people in general, the grammar works like English nobody wants, not nobody want.

So:

• enginn = singular
• therefore vill = 3rd person singular present

That is why the verb is singular.

The dictionary form is vilja, meaning to want.

Vill is an irregular present-tense form:

• ég vil — I want
• þú vilt — you want
• hann/hún/það vill — he/she/it wants

So in Enginn vill deyja, the word vill means wants.

Because it comes after vilja.

Just like in English you say wants to die, Icelandic uses a second verb after vilja in the infinitive:

• vilja deyja — to want to die

So:

• vill = wants
• deyja = die / to die

The conjugated verb is vill, and deyja stays in the infinitive.

That is a very common question.

In Icelandic, some verbs take the infinitive without að, and vilja is one of them. So you say:

• Ég vil fara. — I want to go.
• Hún vill sofa. — She wants to sleep.
• Enginn vill deyja. — No one wants to die.

So deyja is a bare infinitive here.

You would not say Enginn vill að deyja.

Yes. This is the normal basic word order:

• Enginn — subject
• vill — verb
• deyja — infinitive

So it follows a straightforward pattern like:

• Hann vill fara. — He wants to go.
• Enginn vill deyja. — No one wants to die.

It is a very natural, neutral sentence structure.

A rough English-friendly guide is something like DAY-yah, though not exactly.

A few points:

• ey is a diphthong, somewhat like the vowel sound in English day
• j is pronounced like English y
• the final a is a short unstressed vowel

So deyja sounds roughly like DAY-ya.

As always, the real Icelandic pronunciation is a bit different from any English approximation, but that will get you close.

A rough approximation is:

ENG-ginn vill DAY-ya

A few helpful notes:

• Enginn has stress on the first syllable
• vill is short
• deyja has the main stress on the first syllable, as Icelandic words usually do

If you want a more detailed approximation:

• Enginn ≈ ENG-gin
• vill ≈ vitl or vill with a short vowel
• deyja ≈ DAY-ya

The exact sounds are more Icelandic than English spelling can show, but this is a useful starting point.

Not in the same way.

Enginn already contains the negative meaning no one / nobody. If you used ekki, you would need a different structure.

For example:

• Enginn vill deyja. — No one wants to die.
• Ekki allir vilja deyja. — Not everyone wants to die.

So enginn is the correct word when the subject itself is no one.

It can mean different things depending on context.

It may mean:

• no one / nobody when referring to people
• none
• no as a determiner before a noun

Examples:

• Enginn kom. — No one came.
• Ég á enga peninga. — I have no money.
• Ekkert hjálpar. — Nothing helps.

So in your sentence, enginn specifically means no one, but the word itself is part of a larger set of forms meaning no / none / nobody / nothing, depending on grammar and context.