Icelandic

Adverb

þá

1. then, the past

   Þá var ég ungur maður.‎

   I was a young man then.

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?

Derived terms

• þátíð

Pronoun

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.

Declension

Old Norse

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

þá (not comparable)

1. then, at that time

Descendants

Etymology 2

From a form of Proto-Germanic *sa ‎(“that”). Cognate with Old English þā, Old Saxon thia, Old High German dē, dea.

Pronoun

þá

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

Declension

Descendants

References

• “þá” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)