Breakdown of Kennarinn sýnir okkur verkefnið.
Questions & Answers about Kennarinn sýnir okkur verkefnið.
Icelandic doesn’t use a separate word for “the”. Instead, it sticks a definite article ending onto the noun.
- kennari = a teacher (indefinite)
- kennarinn = the teacher (definite, nominative singular masculine)
So -inn is the masculine definite ending in the nominative singular. The sentence needs “the teacher”, so it uses Kennarinn.
The infinitive (dictionary form) is að sýna = to show.
Icelandic verbs change their ending according to the subject. For að sýna in the present tense:
- ég sýni – I show
- þú sýnir – you (sg.) show
- hann / hún / það sýnir – he / she / it shows
- við sýnum – we show
- þið sýnið – you (pl.) show
- þeir / þær / þau sýna – they show
The subject Kennarinn is 3rd person singular, so the verb must be sýnir.
Icelandic has different forms for subject and , like English vs. , but with more case marking.