Icelandic genitive?
When using the Icelandic genitive and saying 'the child's cat', you put child' in the definite genitive form, right?
But what if I wanted to say 'A child's cat'? Or...'A person's house'. Is it as simple as using the indefinite genitive form? Or not?

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You've got it right.

"the child's cat" => köttur barnsins (more specifically "a cat of the child", as opposed to "the cat of the child")
"a child's cat" => köttur barns

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