Questions & Answers about Ég smakka sósuna áður en ég ber hana á borðið.
Because smakka is the 1st person singular present tense form of the verb að smakka (to taste).
- að smakka = infinitive
- ég smakka = I taste / I am tasting
- þú smakkar = you taste
- hann/hún/það smakkar = he/she/it tastes
So in this sentence, Ég smakka simply means I taste.
Because sósuna means the sauce, and it is the direct object of smakka.
There are two things happening here:
The noun is definite:
- sósa = sauce
- sósan = the sauce
It is in the accusative case, because it is being tasted:
- nominative: sósan
- accusative: sósuna
So:
- Ég smakka sósu = I taste a sauce / some sauce
- Ég smakka sósuna = I taste the sauce