Questions & Answers about Hún svarar stutt og fer svo heim.
Because hún is the subject of the sentence: she is the one doing the actions.
In this sentence, hún does two things:
- svarar = answers
- fer = goes
So Icelandic uses the nominative subject form hún.
svarar is the present tense of the verb að svara = to answer.
So:
- að svara = to answer
- hún svarar = she answers / she is answering
In Icelandic, the present tense often covers both simple present and present progressive meanings, depending on context.
Here stutt is being used adverbially, meaning briefly / shortly.
The basic adjective is:
- stuttur = short
But Icelandic often uses the neuter singular form of an adjective as an adverb. So:
- stuttur = short (masculine adjective)
- stutt = short / briefly (used adverbially here)