Breakdown of Margir þátttakendur komu of seint.
koma
to come
seint
late
of
too
margur
many
þátttakandinn
the participant
Questions & Answers about Margir þátttakendur komu of seint.
Why does the plural of þátttakandi end in -endur instead of a regular plural ending?
Nouns ending in -andi are usually formed from verbs to describe a person doing an action. In the plural, these masculine nouns follow a special pattern where the vowel a changes to e and they take the ending -ur, resulting in -endur.
Why do we use the form margir here rather than margar or mörg?
Why is the word for late written as seint with a -t at the end?
In this sentence, the word acts as an adverb because it describes the verb komu and tells us how the participants arrived. To turn an adjective like seinn into an adverb in Icelandic, you use its neuter singular form, which adds a -t.
Does the word of always mean too in Icelandic?
Not always. When placed directly before an adjective or adverb like seint, it acts as a degree adverb meaning too. However, of can also be a preposition meaning over or because of, which you can recognize because it will be followed by a noun or pronoun in the dative case.
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