Röðin er styttri í dag.

to be

Breakdown of Röðin er styttri í dag.

• stuttur: short
• í dag: today
• röðin: the turn

Questions & Answers about Röðin er styttri í dag.

Why is it röðin and not just röð?

Röð is the basic noun, meaning something like line / queue / row / sequence, depending on context.

Röðin is the definite form: the line.
In Icelandic, the definite article is usually added to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word like English the.

So:

• röð = a line / line
• röðin = the line

Here, the sentence is talking about a specific line, so röðin is used.

What case is röðin in?

It is nominative singular.

That is because röðin is the subject of the sentence, and subjects are normally in the nominative case in Icelandic.

You can think of the structure as:

• Röðin = subject
• er = is
• styttri = shorter
• í dag = today

Why is the verb er used here?