þá

From Proto-Germanic *þawō. The conclusive -n has fallen away in the Scandinavian dialects already in the oldest texts.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθauː/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [ðau].

Rhymes: -auː

þá

1. then, the past

   Þá var ég ungur maður.

   Then I was a young man.

2. then
   • Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)

     Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.

     When Adam had lived 130 years, then he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

   Þá fer ég bara!

   Then I'll just leave!

   Hvað gerirðu þá?

   What will you do then?

• þátíð

þá

1. (personal pronoun): them, accusative of þeir (“they”) which is in turn the plural form of hann (“him”)

   Ekki drepa þá!

   Don't kill them!

   Þá þekki ég svo sannarlega.

   I sure am familiar with them.

þá f (genitive singular þár or þáar, nominative plural þár)

1. thaw

• þána (“to thaw out, to melt”)
• þeyja (“to thaw”)
• þeyr (“thawing weather”)

From Proto-Germanic *þan (“then”). Cognate with Old English þā, Old High German danne, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌽 (þan).

þá (not comparable)

1. then, at that time, after that

• Icelandic: þá
• Faroese: tá
• Norwegian Nynorsk: då
• Old Swedish: þā
  • Swedish: då, tå (obsolete)
• Danish: da
  • Norwegian Bokmål: da
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: da

From Proto-Germanic *þǭ, accusative singular feminine of Proto-Germanic *sa (“that”). Cognate with Old English þā, Old Saxon thia, Old High German dē, dea, Gothic 𐌸𐍉 (þō).

þá

2. that (accusative singular feminine demonstrative pronoun)

• Icelandic: þá
• Faroese: ta, tá
• Old Swedish: þē

From Proto-Germanic *þanz, accusative plural masculine of Proto-Germanic *sa (“that”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌽𐍃 (þans).

þá

2. those (accusative plural masculine demonstrative pronoun)
3. them (third-person accusative plural masculine personal pronoun)

• Icelandic: þá
• Faroese: tá (obsolete)
• Old Swedish: þā

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

þá

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of þiggja

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “þá”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press