Word
Hvað gerir þú eftir hádegi?
Meaning
What do you do after noon?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Hvað gerir þú eftir hádegi?
What does each word in the sentence correspond to in English?
- Hvað = what
- gerir = do/are doing (2nd person singular present of gera “to do, to make”)
- þú = you (singular)
- eftir = after
- hádegi = noon; the phrase eftir hádegi means after noon or in the afternoon (context decides)
Why is the verb before the subject (why gerir before þú)?
Icelandic main clauses are verb-second (V2). When a question word like Hvað is placed first, the finite verb (gerir) must come next, and the subject (þú) follows: Hvað – gerir – þú – …
Why is it gerir and not gera?
Gerir is the 2nd person singular present form of gera. Mini-pattern:
- ég geri (I do)
- þú gerir (you do)
- hann/hún/það gerir (he/she/it does)
- við gerum (we do)
- þið gerið (you plural do)
- þeir/þær/þau gera (they do)
Can I say gerirðu instead of gerir þú?