sýslumaður

Icelandic

sýsla (“administrative district, county”) +‎ maður (“person”)

sýslumaður m (genitive singular sýslumanns, nominative plural sýslumenn)

county magistrate, in particular the chief official in a type of an administrative district that exists in Iceland and the Faroe Islands (previously also the Nordic countries) known as a sýsla. Similar positions in Anglophone countries are sheriff and county commissioner.

declension of sýslumaður

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
maður	singular		plural
nominative	sýslumaður	sýslumaðurinn	sýslumenn	sýslumennirnir
accusative	sýslumann	sýslumanninn	sýslumenn	sýslumennina
dative	sýslumanni	sýslumanninum	sýslumönnum	sýslumönnunum
genitive	sýslumanns	sýslumannsins	sýslumanna	sýslumannanna

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