Questions & Answers about Við tölum um brandara í hlénu.
Word by word:
Við – we
- 1st person plural pronoun, nominative case, the subject of the sentence.
tölum – (we) talk / speak
- Present tense, 1st person plural of the verb að tala (to speak, to talk).
- This is the finite verb, agreeing with við.
um – about
- A preposition (and also a particle used with tala to form tala um = talk about).
- It governs the accusative case.
brandara – joke(s)
- Noun from brandari (a joke).
- Here in accusative (because of um), functioning as the object: what we talk about.
í – in / during
- Preposition, here indicating time (during).
- With this static “in/during” meaning, it governs the dative case.
hlénu – the break / the interval
- Noun from hlé (break, intermission, pause), neuter, singular, dative definite.
- Literally “in the break / during the break”.
So the core structure is:
- Subject: Við
- Verb: