Word
Henni finnst minna gaman að vera einmana á kvöldin.
Meaning
She finds it less fun to be lonely in the evenings.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Henni finnst minna gaman að vera einmana á kvöldin.
vera
to be
gaman
fun
kvöldið
the evening
á
in
Questions & Answers about Henni finnst minna gaman að vera einmana á kvöldin.
Why is it Henni and not Hún at the beginning?
Henni is the dative case of hún (hún = she, henni = to her).
The verb finnst in this meaning (to feel / to think / to find something fun) takes its experiencer in the dative, not in the nominative. So:
- Henni finnst … = It seems/feels to her … / She finds …
- Mér finnst … = I think/feel … (literally: to me seems …)
- Honum finnst … = He thinks/feels … (literally: to him seems …)
So grammatically, Henni is like an indirect object in English (to her), but in Icelandic this dative phrase functions as what we’d call a “subject-like” experiencer.
What exactly does finnst mean here, and why that form?