No. 511 in Icelandic

húsið

"The house."

In a sentence

Húsið er grænt.
The house is green.
'Húsið' is the subject and refers to a specific house, functioning as the definite form of the noun "house".
Ég fór inn í húsið.
I went into the house.
'Húsið' represents the definite object of the prepositional phrase, indicating a specific house being entered.
Gluggarnir á húsinu eru stórir.
The windows on the house are large.
'Húsinu' is in the dative case definite form, used after the preposition "á" (on) to denote location on a specific house.

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