Hún kastar boltanum til vinkonu sinnar.

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Breakdown of Hún kastar boltanum til vinkonu sinnar.

• til: to
• sinn: her
• boltinn: the ball

Questions & Answers about Hún kastar boltanum til vinkonu sinnar.

Why is kastar used instead of kasta?

Kasta is the dictionary form, meaning to throw.

In the sentence, kastar is the present-tense form used with hún (she):

• ég kasta = I throw
• þú kastar = you throw
• hún kastar = she throws

So Hún kastar means She throws.

Why is it boltanum and not bolti or boltinn?

Because the verb kasta usually takes its object in the dative case.

The noun bolti means ball, but in this sentence it appears as boltanum, which is the dative singular definite form: the ball.

So:

• bolti = a ball / ball (nominative)
• boltinn = the ball (nominative)
• boltanum = the ball (dative)

The reason for the dative is the verb:

• að kasta einhverju = to throw something

Here, einhverju is dative, so boltanum is too.

Where is the word the in boltanum?