Breakdown of Það verður hættulegt að keyra vegna rigningar og hálkumyndunar.
og
and
það
it / there (existential) / the one (n)
að
to (infinitive marker)
keyra
to drive
rigningin
the rain (f)
verða
to become; will be
vegna
because of
hættulegur
dangerous
hálkumyndunin
the ice formation
Questions & Answers about Það verður hættulegt að keyra vegna rigningar og hálkumyndunar.
Why do rigning and hálkumyndun both end in -ar in this sentence?
The preposition vegna (because of) always forces the following noun into the genitive case. Both rigning (rain) and hálkumyndun (ice formation) are feminine nouns. As you are learning in this lesson, feminine nouns ending in -ing and -un take the ending -ar in the genitive singular.
Why is the adjective hættulegt (dangerous) in the neuter form here?
In this sentence, hættulegt is describing the action of driving (að keyra). When an adjective describes an infinitive verb phrase or is paired with the generic pronoun það (it), it always takes the neuter singular form.
Why does the sentence use verður instead of er?
How does the compound word hálkumyndun work grammatically?
It is made up of hálka (ice on the road) and myndun (formation). When combining nouns, the first word often takes the genitive case, changing hálka to hálku to link them. The word as a whole acts as a feminine noun because its final part (myndun) is feminine, which is why it becomes hálkumyndunar after the preposition vegna.
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