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Er ábyrgð hvers liðsmanns skýr núna?

Er ábyrgð hvers liðsmanns skýr núna?
Is the responsibility of each team member clear now?
From Lesson 171:Each and every in dative and genitive (hverjum, hvers)·Icelandic

Questions & Answers about Er ábyrgð hvers liðsmanns skýr núna?

Why do we use hvers here instead of hver?
Hvers is the masculine genitive (possessive) singular form of the pronoun hver (each/every). It is in the genitive case because it translates to 'of each', matching the case, gender, and number of the noun it describes, liðsmanns.
Why does liðsmaður (team member) change to liðsmanns?
It takes the genitive case to show whose responsibility it is (the responsibility 'of a team member'). Liðsmaður is a compound word ending in -maður (man/person), and the genitive singular of maður is highly irregular, always becoming manns.
What dictates the form of the adjective skýr (clear) in this sentence?
The adjective skýr describes the subject of the sentence, ábyrgð (responsibility). Since ábyrgð is a feminine noun in the nominative case, the adjective must also be in the feminine nominative singular form, which is skýr.
Why does the phrase hvers liðsmanns come directly after ábyrgð?
In Icelandic, a genitive phrase like hvers liðsmanns (of each team member) almost always sits immediately after the noun it belongs to. The adjective skýr complements the verb er (is), so it must wait until after the entire subject block (ábyrgð hvers liðsmanns) is complete.

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