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Kanínan borðar gulrætur og gras.

Kanínan borðar gulrætur og gras.
The rabbit eats carrots and grass.
From Lesson 306:Náttúran og dýrin — nature and animals·Icelandic

Breakdown of Kanínan borðar gulrætur og gras.

og
and
borða
to eat
gulrótin
the carrot
kanínan
the rabbit
grasið
the grass

Questions & Answers about Kanínan borðar gulrætur og gras.

Why is the plural of gulrót (carrot) spelled gulrætur here?
In Icelandic, many feminine words that have an ó in the singular change that vowel to an æ in the plural. This is a common pattern, just like bók (book) becomes bækur and rót (root) becomes rætur.
What case are gulrætur and gras in this sentence?
They are in the accusative case because they are the direct objects of the verb borða (to eat). For the feminine plural word gulrætur and the neuter singular word gras, the accusative forms look exactly the same as their nominative (dictionary) forms.
Why is the definite article on kanínan just an -n instead of -in?
The base word is kanína, which is a weak feminine noun ending in a vowel. When a feminine word already ends in -a, we just attach an -n to make it definite (the rabbit), rather than adding an extra vowel like we do for words ending in consonants.

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