Questions & Answers about Ég skipulegg daginn minn.
What are the basic dictionary forms of the words in Ég skipulegg daginn minn?
The sentence breaks down like this:
- Ég – “I” (1st person singular subject pronoun)
- skipulegg – “organize / plan” (1st person singular present tense of the verb skipuleggja – “to organize, to plan”)
- daginn – “the day” (accusative singular of dagur – “day”, with the definite ending -inn)
- minn – “my” (masculine singular possessive pronoun agreeing with daginn)
Literal structure: I organize the-day my → “I organize my day.”
Why is it daginn and not dagur?
Dagur is the nominative form (used for subjects of a sentence).
Here, daginn is the direct object of the verb skipulegg, so it must be in the accusative case. For dagur (masculine):
- Nominative singular: dagur – used for the subject
- Accusative singular: dag – basic object form
- Definite accusative singular: daginn – “the day”
Since we want “the day” as an object, we use the definite accusative: daginn.
How does the noun dagur (“day”) decline in the singular?