No. 976 in Icelandic
veðurstofu
Weather office or meteorological office.
In a sentence
Ég fór á veðurstofuna í gær.
I went to the weather station yesterday.
Here, the word 'veðurstofuna' is in the accusative case form of 'veðurstofa' and is used to denote the place being visited.
Íslenska veðurstofan spáir stormi á morgun.
The Icelandic weather station predicts a storm tomorrow.
In this sentence, 'veðurstofan' is the nominative case of the definite form of 'veðurstofa,' used as the subject of the sentence.
Við fengum skýrslu frá veðurstofunni.
We received a report from the weather station.
'Veðurstofunni' in this instance is the dative case of the definite form of 'veðurstofa,' indicating the source (the station) providing the report.
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