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Annar gallinn er útlitið, en hinn er verðið.

Annar gallinn er útlitið, en hinn er verðið.
One disadvantage is the appearance, but the other is the price.
From Lesson 176:One and the other (einn... annar)·Icelandic

Questions & Answers about Annar gallinn er útlitið, en hinn er verðið.

Why does this sentence use annar... hinn for 'one... the other' instead of einn... annar?
You use annar... hinn when you are talking about exactly two specific things. It translates to 'the one... the other'. If you were talking about an open-ended number of disadvantages, you would use einn... annar ('one... another').
Why does gallinn have the definite article (-inn) attached to it here?
When annar is used to mean 'the one' out of exactly two specific things, the noun that follows it must take the definite article. So, annar gallinn essentially means 'the one of the two disadvantages'.
Both útlitið (the appearance) and verðið (the price) are neuter nouns. Why are annar and hinn in the masculine form?
They both agree with gallinn (the disadvantage), which is a masculine noun. Even though hinn is right next to er verðið, its grammatical gender is locked to the underlying noun it represents (the other disadvantage).
I've seen hinn used to mean 'the' before adjectives. Is it the same word here?
It is the same word, but acting in a different role. While hinn is often the free-standing definite article used before an adjective (like in hinn nýi bíll for 'the new car'), here it acts as an independent pronoun meaning 'the other'.

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