Questions & Answers about Ég elska vinnu mína.
Rough pronunciation (English-style):
- Ég ≈ "yegh" (with a slightly soft g)
- elska ≈ "ELL-ska"
- vinnu ≈ "VIN-nu" (short i as in bit, u like German ü)
- mína ≈ "MEE-na"
In IPA (careful, “standard-ish”):
- Ég: [jɛːɡ] (often realized as [jɛːɣ] or [jɛːk] in speech)
- elska: [ˈɛlska]
- vinnu: [ˈvɪnːʏ]
- mína: [ˈmiːna]
Whole sentence: [jɛːɡ ˈɛlska ˈvɪnːʏ ˈmiːna]
Stress is always on the first syllable of each Icelandic word: ÉG ELSka VINnu MÍna.
- Ég – personal pronoun, 1st person singular nominative → “I”
- elska – verb, 1st person singular present indicative → “(I) love”
- vinna is the base noun meaning “work” / “job”, but here it appears as vinnu
- vinnu – noun, feminine, singular accusative form of vinna
- mína – possessive adjective “my”, feminine singular accusative form of (from the paradigm )