Questions & Answers about Valið er erfitt.
Here valið is a noun, not a verb.
- The base noun is val, a neuter noun.
- valið is the definite singular form: the choice / the selection.
So the sentence structure is:
- valið = the choice
- er = is
- erfitt = difficult
In other words, it is a very simple subject + verb + adjective sentence.
Because Icelandic usually adds the definite article as an ending, instead of using a separate word like English the.
So:
- val = a choice / choice
- valið = the choice
That -ið is the neuter singular definite ending here.
This is one of the first big differences English speakers notice: Icelandic often says the-word as one word, not the + word.