Learn Hardcore Icelandic: Markmiðið er einfalt.

Gender: <a class="border-b border-dotted border-blue-400 dark:border-blue-500 cursor-pointer text-inherit no-underline" href="/grammar/icelandic/nouns/gender-overview">neuter
Number: singular
Case: <a class="border-b border-dotted border-blue-400 dark:border-blue-500 cursor-pointer text-inherit no-underline" href="/grammar/icelandic/nouns/case-overview">nominative

Breakdown of Markmiðið er einfalt.

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What are the individual words in Markmiðið er einfalt and what do they literally mean?

The sentence breaks down like this:

markmiðið – the goal / the objective
- markmið = goal, objective (a neuter noun)
- -ið = the definite ending for neuter singular (so markmið → markmiðið = the goal)
er – is
- The present tense of the verb að vera (to be).
einfalt – simple (here in the neuter singular nominative form, agreeing with markmiðið).

So structurally it is: the-goal is simple.

Why does markmið become markmiðið? What is that -ið ending?