Questions & Answers about Munnurinn minn er þurr eftir langan fund.
What does each word in Munnurinn minn er þurr eftir langan fund mean literally?
Word-by-word:
munnurinn – “the mouth”
- base form: munnur = mouth
- -inn is the definite ending = “the”
- nominative singular, masculine
minn – “my”
- 1st person singular possessive pronoun
- here: masculine nominative singular, agreeing with munnurinn
er – “is”
- 3rd person singular present of vera = to be
þurr – “dry”
- adjective “dry”, nominative masculine singular
- agrees with the subject munnurinn
eftir – “after”
- preposition; here it means “after (in time)”, and it takes the accusative case
langan – “long”
- from adjective langur = long
- accusative masculine singular, agreeing with fund
fund – “meeting”
- base form: fundur = meeting
- fund is its accusative singular form, required after eftir here
Why is it munnurinn and not munnur or munnurinn?