Breakdown of Himinninn er blár og fallegur í dag.
vera
to be
og
and
fallegur
beautiful
í dag
today
blár
blue
himinninn
the sky
Questions & Answers about Himinninn er blár og fallegur í dag.
Why does the word himinninn look like it has the suffix "inn" twice?
The base noun for "sky" is himinn, which naturally ends in -inn. Since it's a masculine noun, the attached definite article (meaning "the") is also -inn. Stacking them together gives you himinninn ("the sky").
Why are the adjectives in the forms blár and fallegur?
In Icelandic, adjectives must agree in gender, number, and case with the noun they describe. Himinn is a masculine noun in the singular nominative case (it is the subject of the sentence). Therefore, the adjectives take the masculine singular nominative endings: -r for blár and -ur for fallegur.
Why is dag in the accusative case here, even though the preposition í often triggers the dative?
Fixed time expressions using í to mean "this" or "today" always take the accusative case. So í dag ("today"), í kvöld ("tonight"), and í sumar ("this summer") all use the accusative. Using the dative here would literally mean you are physically located inside of a day!
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