Breakdown of Hlutverk hvers liðsmanns er mikilvægt fyrir samstarfið okkar.
vera
to be
mikilvægur
important
fyrir
for (fyrir þig)
hlutverkið
the role
okkar
our
hver
each / every
liðsmaðurinn
the team member
samstarfið
the cooperation
Questions & Answers about Hlutverk hvers liðsmanns er mikilvægt fyrir samstarfið okkar.
Why do we use hvers liðsmanns here instead of the nominative hver liðsmaður?
This phrase translates to 'the role of each team member', so we need the genitive case to show possession or belonging. The word hver changes to its masculine genitive form, hvers, to match the masculine noun liðsmaður, which becomes liðsmanns.
Since liðsmanns is masculine, why does the adjective mikilvægt have a neuter ending?
The adjective isn't describing the team member; it is describing the role (hlutverk). Because hlutverk is a neuter noun in the nominative case here, the adjective must take the neuter singular form mikilvægt.
How do we get the irregular ending -manns in liðsmanns?
Why does samstarfið have a definite article when we are saying 'our cooperation'?
In Icelandic, when you place a possessive word like okkar (our) after a noun, the noun almost always takes the definite article. So the structure is literally 'the cooperation our' (samstarfið okkar). This is a very common pattern to remember!
What case does the preposition fyrir trigger for the word samstarfið?
It takes the accusative case here. When fyrir means 'for' in the sense of benefit, purpose, or importance to something, it forces the following noun into the accusative. The accusative of the neuter word samstarfið happens to look identical to its nominative form.
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