Líf okkar er gott.

to be

Breakdown of Líf okkar er gott.

• gott: good
• okkar: our
• líf: the life

Questions & Answers about Líf okkar er gott.

What does each word in Líf okkar er gott. mean literally?

Word by word:

• líf – life
• okkar – our / of us
• er – is (3rd person singular of vera, “to be”)
• gott – good (neuter form of the adjective “good”)

So literally: “Life of-us is good.” → “Our life is good.”

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What is the basic grammatical structure of this sentence?

The structure is:

• Subject: Líf okkar (“our life”)
• Verb: er (“is”)
• Complement (predicative adjective): gott (“good”)

So it’s a simple Subject–Verb–Complement sentence, very similar to English “Our life is good.”

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What gender and case is líf, and how does that affect gott?

• líf is a neuter noun in Icelandic.
• In this sentence it is the subject, so it is in the nominative case.

Adjectives must agree with the noun in gender, number, and case, so:

• neuter, singular, nominative noun (líf)
  → neuter, singular, nominative adjective .