Word
Hún athugar brottförina aftur í símanum af því að veðrið er slæmt.
Meaning
She checks the departure again on her phone because the weather is bad.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Hún athugar brottförina aftur í símanum af því að veðrið er slæmt.
vera
to be
hún
she
veðrið
the weather
aftur
again
Questions & Answers about Hún athugar brottförina aftur í símanum af því að veðrið er slæmt.
Why is it Hún and not some other form of hún?
Hún is the nominative form, which is the form used for the subject of the sentence.
Here, hún is the person doing the action:
- Hún athugar ... = She checks ...
Other cases of hún appear when it has other roles:
- hana = her
- henni = to her / for her
- hennar = her / hers
So Hún is used because she is the subject.
What form is athugar, and why does it end in -ar?
Athugar is the present tense of the verb að athuga, meaning to check, to examine, or to look into.
With many Icelandic verbs, the 3rd person singular present ends in -ar:
- ég athuga = I check
- þú athugar = you check
- hún/hann/það athugar = she/he/it checks
In this sentence, the subject is hún, so the verb is correctly athugar.
Why is it brottförina instead of just brottför?