Noun: hestur
Gender: m
Declension:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | hestur |
| Sg. Def. | hesturinn |
| Pl. Indef. | hestar |
| Pl. Def. | hestarnir |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | hests |
| Sg. Def. | hestsins |
| Pl. Indef. | hesta |
| Pl. Def. | hestanna |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | hesti |
| Sg. Def. | hestinum |
| Pl. Indef. | hestum |
| Pl. Def. | hestunum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | hest |
| Sg. Def. | hestinn |
| Pl. Indef. | hesta |
| Pl. Def. | hestana |
Sample Sentences
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Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic) (I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.)
Nouns inflected like hestur
búálfur,
tölvupóstur,
sæhestur,
beitukóngur,
gráðostur,
graðhestur,
æðarkóngur,
sandstormur,
silkiormur,
brunnur,
flóðhestur,
broddur,
músvákur,
gjóstur,
bandormur,
hvirfilvindur,
álandsvindur,
sokkaleistur,
þráðormur,
grunnur, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse hestr, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz, *hanhistaz. See: Old Norse Nouns '
hestr'.
Translations