skorta
Icelandic
Verb
skorta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative skorti, supine skort)
- (impersonal) to cause to lack (to cause to experience a shortcoming of) [with accusative ‘someone’ (preceding) and accusative ‘something’ (following)] (idiomatically translated as "lack" with the preceding accusative object as the subject)
Conjugation
| infinitive nafnháttur | að skorta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| supine sagnbót | skort | |||||
| present participle |
skortandi | |||||
| indicative |
subjunctive | |||||
| present |
past |
present |
past | |||
| singular | ég | skorti | skorti | skorti | skorti | |
| þú | skortir | skortir | skortir | skortir | ||
| hann, hún, það | skortir | skorti | skorti | skorti | ||
| plural | við | skortum | skortum | skortum | skortum | |
| þið | skortið | skortuð | skortið | skortuð | ||
| þeir, þær, þau | skorta | skortu | skorti | skortu | ||
| imperative boðháttur | ||||||
| singular | þú | skort (þú), skortu | ||||
| plural | þið | skortið (þið), skortiði1 | ||||
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Further reading
- “skorta” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)