Word
Truflunin var stutt, svo við héldum áfram.
Meaning
The interruption was short, so we continued.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Truflunin var stutt, svo við héldum áfram.
Why is it truflunin and not just truflun?
Because -in is the suffixed definite article in Icelandic.
- truflun = interruption / disturbance
- truflunin = the interruption / the disturbance
Icelandic usually puts the at the end of the noun rather than using a separate word like English does.
In this sentence, truflunin is the subject, and it is in the nominative singular.
What gender is truflun, and does that matter here?
Yes. Truflun is a feminine noun, and that matters because adjectives often have to agree with the noun in gender, number, and case.
So in:
- Truflunin var stutt
the adjective stutt matches truflunin.
Why is the adjective stutt?