Questions & Answers about Hurðin er hreinni núna.
Because Icelandic usually puts the definite article on the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like the.
- hurð = door
- hurðin = the door
So the -in at the end is the definite article here.
Hurðin is nominative singular definite.
More specifically:
- the noun is hurð
- it is a feminine noun
- here it is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative
- the ending makes it definite: the door
So this form means the door as the subject of the sentence.
Er is the 3rd person singular present tense of vera (to be).
Since hurðin is a singular subject, Icelandic uses the singular verb:
- ég er = I am
- þú ert = you are
- hann/hún/það er = he/she/it is
So means