Breakdown of Viðbragðið kemur frá undirmeðvitundinni.
koma
to come
frá
from
undirmeðvitundin
the subconscious
viðbragðið
the reaction
Questions & Answers about Viðbragðið kemur frá undirmeðvitundinni.
If I wanted to ask 'What does the reaction come from?', how would I use the word for 'what' here?
You would ask, Frá hverju kemur viðbragðið? Because the preposition frá always requires the dative case, the interrogative pronoun hvað (what) must change into its dative form, which is hverju.
Why does undirmeðvitundinni end in -inni?
The preposition frá forces the following noun into the dative case. Undirmeðvitund (subconscious) is a feminine noun, so when you add the definite article to it in the dative case, it takes the ending -inni.
How is the long word undirmeðvitund formed, and how does that affect its grammar?
It is a compound word made of the prefix undir- (under or sub) and the noun meðvitund (consciousness). In Icelandic compound nouns, the gender and the way the word changes for cases are always determined entirely by the final word in the chain.
Why is the definite article on viðbragðið just -ið?
The word viðbragð (reaction) is a neuter noun. When a neuter noun ends in a consonant, its attached definite article in the nominative case is simply -ið.