IFD Icelandic part-of-speech tagset

The following table shows part-of-speech tags from IFD Tagset.

An Example of a tag in the CQL concordance search box: [tag="fah.*"] finds all demonstrative pronouns in the accusative case, e.g. people, years (note: please make sure that you use straight double quotation marks)

Basic overview of Icelandic tagset

Part of speech	Tag
adjective	l.*
adverb	a.*
article	g.*
conjunction	c.*
noun	n.*
numeral	t.*
pronoun	f.*
verb	s.*

Icelandic part-of-speech tags in detail

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Noun

For example, to find all masculine plural nouns in accusative that are other proper names, use the following CQL tag: [tag="nkfo-s"] (empty/unused category is replaced with dash “-“)

Order	Category/Feature	Value	Tag
1	Word class	n	noun
2	Gender	k	masculine
		v	feminine
		h	neuter
		x	unspecified
3	Number	e	singular
		f	plural
4	Case	n	nominative
		o	accusative
		þ	dative
		e	genitive
5	Article	g	with suffixed definite article
6	Proper noun	m	person name
		ö	place name
		s	other proper name

Adjective

For example, to find all feminine singular adjectives in dative with strong declension and positive degree, use the following CQL tag: [tag="lveþsf"] (the latin small letter thorn “þ” can be copied from here; Unicode code: U+00FE)

Order	Category/Feature	Tag	Value
1	Word class	l	adjective
2	Gender	k	masculine
		v	feminine
		h	neuter
3	Number	e	singular
		f	plural
4	Case	n	nominative
		o	accusative
		þ	dative
		e	genitive
5	Declension	s	strong declension
		v	weak declension
		o	indeclineable
6	Degree	f	positive
		m	comparative
		e	superlative

Pronoun

For example, to find all second-person personal pronouns in singular and the genitive case, use the following CQL tag: [tag="fp2ee"]

Order	Category/Feature	Tag	Value
1	Word class	f	pronoun
2	Subcategory	a	demonstrative
		b	reflexive
		e	possessive
		o	indefinite
		p	personal
		s	interrogative
		t	relative
3	Gender / Person	k	masculine
		v	feminine
		h	neuter
		1	1st person
		2	2nd person
4	Number	e	singular
		f	plural
5	Case	n	nominative
		o	accusative
		þ	dative
		e	genitive

Article

For example, to find all masculine articles in the genitive (both singular and plural), use the following CQL tag: [tag="gk.e"]

Order	Category/Feature	Tag	Value
1	Word class	g	article
2	Gender	k	masculine
		v	feminine
		h	neuter
3	Number	e	singular
		f	plural
4	Case	n	nominative
		o	accusative
		þ	dative
		e	genitive

Numeral

For example, to find numerals in the plural, use the following CQL tag: [tag="t..f."]

Order	Category/Feature	Tag	Value
1	Word class	t	numeral
2	Category	f	alpha
		o	numeric
		p	percentage
3	Gender	k	masculine
		v	feminine
4	Case	h	neuter
4	Number	e	singular
		f	plural
5	Case	n	nominative
		o	accusative
		þ	dative
		e	genitive

Verb (except for past participle)

For example, to find all verbs in the 2nd person singular present active indicative forms, use the following CQL tag: [tag="sfg2en"]

Order	Category/Feature	Tag	Value
1	Word class	s	verb (except for past participle)
2	Mood	n	infinitive
		b	imperative
		f	indicative
3	Gender	v	subjunctive
		s	supine
4	Case	l	present participle
3	Voice	g	active
		m	middle
4	Person	1	1st person
		2	2nd person
		3	3rd person,
5	Number	e	singular
		f	plural
6	Tense	n	present
		þ	past

Verb (past participle)

For example, to find all past participle verb forms in the nominative, use the following CQL tag: [tag="sþ.*n"]

Order	Category/Feature	Tag	Value
1	Word class	s	verb (past participle)
2	Mood	þ	past participle
3	Voice	g	active
		m	middle
4	Gender	k	masculine
		v	feminine
		h	neuter
5	Number	e	singular
		f	plural
6	Case	n	nominative
		o	accusative
		þ	dative
		e	genitive

Adverb and preposition

For example, to find all superlative forms of adverbs/prepositions, use the following CQL tag: [tag="a.e"]

Order	Category/Feature	Tag	Value
1	Word class	a	adverb and preposition
2	Category	a	does not govern case
		u	exclamation
		o	governs accusative
		þ	governs dative
		e	governs genitive
3	Degree	m	comparative
		e	superlative

Conjunction

For example, to find all relative conjunctions, use the following CQL tag: [tag="ct"]

Order	Category/Feature	Tag	Value
1	Word class	c	conjunction
2	Category	n	sign of infinitive
		t	relative conjunction,

Foreign word

Order	Category/Feature	Tag	Value
1	Word class	e	foreign word

Unanalyzed word

Order	Category/Feature	Tag	Value
1	Word class	x	unanalyzed word

Reference

Github repository of IceNLP toolkit: https://github.com/hrafnl/icenlp