Dóttir mín vill hoppa á trampólíninu eftir hádegi.

to want

Breakdown of Dóttir mín vill hoppa á trampólíninu eftir hádegi.

• á: on
• eftir: after
• hádegið: the noon

Questions & Answers about Dóttir mín vill hoppa á trampólíninu eftir hádegi.

Why is it dóttir mín and not mín dóttir?

Both are possible, but they are not equally neutral.

• dóttir mín is the more normal, everyday way to say my daughter
• mín dóttir is possible, but it often sounds more emphatic, contrastive, or stylistically marked

So in a plain statement like this, dóttir mín is the most natural choice.

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What form is mín, and why does it look like that?

Mín is the possessive pronoun my.

It agrees with dóttir in:

• gender: feminine
• number: singular
• case: nominative

Here, dóttir is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative singular. Because of that, the possessive must match it, giving mín.

A few related forms are:

• minn = masculine nominative singular
• mín = feminine nominative singular
• mitt = neuter nominative singular

So the form mín is there because dóttir is a feminine singular subject.

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Why is there no word for to before hoppa?