Word
Barnið sefur betur þegar bangsinn og dúkkan eru í rúminu.
Meaning
The child sleeps better when the teddy bear and the doll are in the bed.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Barnið sefur betur þegar bangsinn og dúkkan eru í rúminu.
vera
to be
barnið
the child
sofa
to sleep
í
in
Questions & Answers about Barnið sefur betur þegar bangsinn og dúkkan eru í rúminu.
What does the ending -ið in barnið mean?
-ið is the definite article attached to the noun, so barnið means the child.
In Icelandic, the word for child is barn.
- barn = a child
- barnið = the child
This is very common in Icelandic: instead of using a separate word like English the, Icelandic often adds the article to the end of the noun.
Why is it sefur and not sofur or sofa?
Sefur is the correct 3rd person singular present tense form of the verb sofa (to sleep).
So:
- að sofa = to sleep
- ég sef = I sleep / am sleeping
- þú sefur = you sleep
- barnið sefur = the child sleeps
This verb changes its stem in the present tense, so you cannot just take sofa and remove the -a.
Why is it betur? What kind of word is that?