Hún kemur út úr húsinu.

Hún means she.

In a normal Icelandic sentence, the subject pronoun is usually stated, so hún is required here. Icelandic does not usually drop subject pronouns the way some languages do.

So:

• Hún kemur út úr húsinu. = She comes out of the house.

If you remove hún, the sentence would normally feel incomplete unless the context is very special.

Kemur is the present-tense form of the verb koma (to come) for he/she/it.

The verb koma is the infinitive, like English to come.
When you say she comes, Icelandic uses the finite form kemur.

A few present-tense forms are:

• ég kem = I come
• þú kemur = you come
• hún kemur = she comes
• við komum = we come

So hún kemur simply means she comes.

This is a very common question.

• út means out
• úr means out of / from inside

Together, út úr means something like out from inside of.

So:

• Hún kemur út úr húsinu. = She comes out of the house

In practice, Icelandic often uses both words where English just says out of.

You can think of it like this:

• út gives the direction: out
• úr introduces the place being exited: out of/from inside

Úr is a preposition meaning out of, from, or from inside.

It is used when something comes from the inside of something else.

Examples:

• úr húsinu = out of the house
• úr bílnum = out of the car
• úr vasanum = out of the pocket

A very important grammar point: úr takes the dative case. That is why hús changes to húsinu here.

Because úr requires the dative case, and húsinu is the dative singular definite form of hús (house).

Here is the basic pattern:

• hús = a house / house
• húsið = the house
• húsinu = to/in/from the house, depending on the preposition or structure

In this sentence:

• úr húsinu = out of the house

So the ending -inu is there because:

1. the noun is definite (the house), and
2. it is in the dative singular after úr

In Icelandic, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun.

So:

• hús = house / a house
• húsið = the house
• húsinu = a case form of the house

Because the noun has that definite ending, húsinu refers to the house, not just a house.

This is very typical in Icelandic: instead of a separate word like English the, the language often adds the article onto the noun itself.

Yes, in some contexts úr húsinu can already imply movement from inside the house, and people may understand it.

However, út úr is very natural and explicit when the idea is physical movement outward from an enclosed place. It strongly matches English out of.

So:

• kemur úr húsinu = comes from/out of the house
• kemur út úr húsinu = comes out of the house

The version with út makes the outward movement clearer.

This is the normal straightforward word order:

• Hún = subject
• kemur = verb
• út úr húsinu = adverbial/prepositional phrase

So it follows a basic pattern like:

subject + verb + rest

That said, Icelandic word order is somewhat flexible, especially to emphasize something. For example, you might also see:

• Út úr húsinu kemur hún.

That version puts more focus on out of the house. But the original sentence is the neutral, ordinary order.

A rough pronunciation guide for an English speaker is:

hoon KEM-ur oot oor HOO-si-noo

A few helpful notes:

• ú is like oo in food
• hún sounds roughly like hoon
• kemur has the stress on the first syllable: KEM-ur
• úr sounds like oor
• húsinu is roughly HOO-si-noo

Also remember that Icelandic usually stresses the first syllable of a word.

Icelandic uses koma for come and fara for go, much like English.

• Hún kemur út úr húsinu. = She comes out of the house.
• Hún fer út úr húsinu. = She goes out of the house.

The difference depends on viewpoint, just as in English:

• come = movement toward the speaker, listener, or reference point
• go = movement away from that point

So if the original sentence uses kemur, the speaker is presenting the movement as coming rather than going.

It is used very widely with nouns that refer to things you can be inside.

Examples:

• út úr bílnum = out of the car
• út úr herberginu = out of the room
• út úr skólanum = out of the school
• út úr vatninu = out of the water

So út úr is a general pattern, not something special only for house.

Here are the main dictionary forms:

• hún → pronoun meaning she
• kemur → from koma = to come
• út → adverb meaning out
• úr → preposition meaning out of / from
• húsinu → from hús = house

This is useful because Icelandic words often appear in changed forms in actual sentences, especially verbs and nouns.