Questions & Answers about Þetta er vitleysa.
A learner-friendly approximation is:
- Þetta → THET-ta or THEH-ta
- er → ehr
- vitleysa → VIT-lay-sa
A few useful pronunciation notes:
- Þ / þ is like th in thing, never like th in this.
- In þetta, the tt is often pronounced with a little breath before it, which is why it can sound a bit like THEH-ta.
- ei in vitleysa sounds like ay in day.
- Icelandic usually stresses the first syllable: ÞET-ta er VIT-ley-sa.
Þetta is a demonstrative pronoun. In this sentence, it means this or this thing / this matter.
Grammatically, it is:
- neuter
- singular
- the subject of the sentence
So in Þetta er vitleysa, þetta is the thing being talked about.