Ég skil þetta orðasamband betur núna.

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Breakdown of Ég skil þetta orðasamband betur núna.

• núna: now
• skilja: to understand
• þessi: this

Questions & Answers about Ég skil þetta orðasamband betur núna.

What is happening grammatically in Ég skil þetta orðasamband betur núna?

A word-by-word breakdown looks like this:

• Ég = I
• skil = understand / am understanding
• þetta = this
• orðasamband = phrase, expression, literally something like word-combination
• betur = better
• núna = now

So the structure is:

• subject: Ég
• verb: skil
• object: þetta orðasamband
• adverb: betur
• time adverb: núna

It is a very normal Icelandic sentence pattern: Subject + Verb + Object + Adverb + Time expression.

Why is it skil and not skila or skilir?