Word
Hún athugaði útsvarið því að launamiðinn var rangur.
Meaning
She checked the municipal income tax because the pay statement was wrong.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Hún athugaði útsvarið því að launamiðinn var rangur.
vera
to be
hún
she
því að
because
athuga
to check
Questions & Answers about Hún athugaði útsvarið því að launamiðinn var rangur.
What does athugaði mean, and what form is it?
Athugaði is the past tense of the verb að athuga, which means to check, to examine, or to look into.
In this sentence, hún athugaði means she checked.
A learner may notice that many Icelandic past-tense weak verbs end in -ði or -di, and athugaði is a good example of that pattern.
Why is it hún and not some other word for she?
Hún is the nominative singular form of the feminine pronoun she. It is used because it is the subject of the sentence — the person doing the action.
So in:
Hún athugaði ...
= She checked ...
If the pronoun were in a different grammatical role, Icelandic would use a different case form.
Why is it útsvarið with -ið at the end?