Icelandic inflections 🇮🇸

This is an interface for receiving the inflections (conjugations and declensions) of Icelandic words, both as a list and as HTML tables.

The dataset is the Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection (DMII), or Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls (BÍN), by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. The author and editor of DMII is Kristín Bjarnadóttir. (CC BY-SA 4.0)

API

Search

Exact matches (case insensitive):

• https://ylhyra.is/api/inflection?search=mamma

Fuzzy search:

• https://ylhyra.is/api/inflection?search=thorsmork&fuzzy=true

Items

Get rendered HTML tables:

• https://ylhyra.is/api/inflection?id=433568&type=html

Get a nested JSON object:

• https://ylhyra.is/api/inflection?id=433568&type=nested

Get a flat array of all rows:

• https://ylhyra.is/api/inflection?id=433568&type=flat

API documentation

• Fields

Custom tables

• Custom tables

Development

• Development
• Open tasks

Known issues

• Certain word classes (ordinals, pronouns) are not yet well supported.

License

• Data: CC BY-SA 4.0 – © Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Software: MIT

Further reading

• Slides by Kristín Bjarnadóttir about BÍN