Word
Það er stutt síðan dóttir mín byrjaði að hoppa á trampólíninu.
Meaning
It has not been long since my daughter started jumping on the trampoline.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Það er stutt síðan dóttir mín byrjaði að hoppa á trampólíninu.
vera
to be
það
it
á
on
byrja
to start
Questions & Answers about Það er stutt síðan dóttir mín byrjaði að hoppa á trampólíninu.
What does Það er stutt síðan ... mean as a whole?
This is a very common Icelandic time expression. Literally, it is something like It is short since ..., but in natural English it means:
- It has not been long since ...
- It is only a short time since ...
So Það er stutt síðan dóttir mín byrjaði að hoppa á trampólíninu means that only a short amount of time has passed since that event happened.
Why is það used here? Does it mean that?
Here það is not really that. It is a dummy subject, like English it in:
- It is raining
- It is late
- It has not been long since ...
There is no specific thing that það refers to. It is just needed to make the sentence structure work.
Why is it stutt?