Word
Mengunin í borginni er stundum mikil og hefur áhrif á umhverfið.
Meaning
The pollution in the city is sometimes great and has an effect on the environment.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Mengunin í borginni er stundum mikil og hefur áhrif á umhverfið.
vera
to be
stundum
sometimes
í
in
og
and
Questions & Answers about Mengunin í borginni er stundum mikil og hefur áhrif á umhverfið.
What does mengunin mean exactly, and why is there an -in at the end?
The base noun is mengun, which means pollution (feminine noun).
Icelandic often adds a definite ending to the noun instead of using a separate word like English the. For feminine nouns like mengun, the definite nominative singular ending is -in.
- mengun = pollution
- mengunin = the pollution
In this sentence, mengunin is the subject, so it is in nominative definite form: the pollution (in the city) is sometimes great…
Why is it í borginni and not just í borg or í borgina?