No. 763 in Icelandic
mánuðum
"Months" (dative plural form of "mánuður").
In a sentence
Við ferðumst til Keflavíkur fyrir nokkrum mánuðum.
We traveled to Keflavík a few months ago.
In this sentence, 'mánuðum' is the dative plural of 'mánuður' (month), used because it is governed by the preposition 'fyrir' which requires the dative case.
Hún hefur verið að vinna í þessu verkefni í tólf mánuðum.
She has been working on this project for twelve months.
Here, 'mánuðum' is in the dative plural form owing to its use with the preposition 'í' indicating duration (past or present).
Eftir nokkrum mánuðum byrjum við aftur í skóla.
In a few months, we will start school again.
The word 'mánuðum' is dative plural as directed by the preposition 'eftir', which governs the dative case in this temporal sense.
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