Breakdown of Það er ekki lengur til. Handritið er glatað.
vera
to be
það
it / there (existential) / the one (n)
ekki
not
lengur
longer
handritið
the script
vera til
to exist / be available
glataður
lost (ruined, doomed)
Questions & Answers about Það er ekki lengur til. Handritið er glatað.
Why is til at the very end of the first sentence instead of right after er?
Is ekki lengur the normal way to say not anymore?
Yes. It literally translates to not longer. Whenever you want to say that something does not happen anymore or is no longer the case, you use ekki lengur right after the verb.
How is the word handritið built?
It is a compound of hönd (hand) and rit (a piece of writing), plus the neuter definite article -ið (the). So it literally means the hand-writing, which is exactly what a manuscript is!
Why is the word for lost spelled glatað instead of the dictionary form glataður?
Adjectives and past participles have to match the gender of the noun they describe. Because handrit is a neuter noun, the past participle drops the masculine -ur ending and takes the neuter -ð ending to become glatað.
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