Breakdown of Dagsektin byrjar eftir skiladaginn; skilakassinn er opinn.
Questions & Answers about Dagsektin byrjar eftir skiladaginn; skilakassinn er opinn.
Dagsekt is a fine or penalty charged per day. In a library or borrowing context, it is the overdue fee that starts accumulating day by day.
The ending -in is the definite article, so dagsektin means the daily fine or the overdue fine.
Even though English might sometimes use a plural idea like fines, Icelandic often uses the singular here to talk about the fee system itself: the daily fine starts.
Byrjar is the present tense of the verb að byrja, meaning to begin or to start.
Here it is:
- 3rd person singular
- present tense
So Dagsektin byrjar means the fine starts or the fine begins.