Breakdown of Hún skrifar með merkipennanum og tekur borðið í sundur.
skrifa
to write
hún
she
með
with
borðið
the table
Questions & Answers about Hún skrifar með merkipennanum og tekur borðið í sundur.
Why does the sentence start with Hún? Does it just mean she?
Yes, hún usually means she.
In Icelandic, personal pronouns are inflected for case, but here hún is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative case.
A few useful forms are:
- hún = she (nominative)
- hana = her (accusative)
- henni = her (dative)
- hennar = her / hers (genitive)
So in Hún skrifar..., hún is the person doing the actions: writing and taking the table apart.
What form is skrifar? Why not skrifa?
Skrifar is the present tense form of the verb að skrifa = to write.
So:
- að skrifa = to write
- ég skrifa = I write
- hún skrifar = she writes
In Icelandic, verbs change depending on the subject, and -ar is a very common present-tense ending with he/she/it for many verbs.
So:
- Hún skrifar = She writes
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