Breakdown of Teymið ætlar að fá mig til að lengja skilafrestinn.
ég
I
að
to (infinitive marker)
ætla
to intend
fá
to get
til
to
lengja
to lengthen
teymið
the team
skilafresturinn
the deadline
Questions & Answers about Teymið ætlar að fá mig til að lengja skilafrestinn.
Why is the pronoun mig in the accusative case in this sentence?
It is the direct object of the verb fá. In this lesson's causative construction, fá takes the person being persuaded in the accusative case, followed by til að and the infinitive verb they are being persuaded to do (lengja).
Does til að mean its usual 'in order to' in this context?
Not exactly. While til að normally shows purpose (in order to), here it is a mandatory part of the fixed grammatical pattern. To say you are getting someone to do something, you must use fá einhvern til að gera eitthvað. You cannot drop til and just say fá mig að lengja.
How is the word skilafrestinn formed and why is it in the accusative case?
It is a compound of the verb skila (to hand in or return) and the masculine noun frestur (deadline or grace period), with the definite article attached. It takes the accusative form skilafrestinn because it is the direct object being acted upon by the verb lengja (to extend).
The verb lengja means to extend. How does it relate to the word for long?
lengja is derived directly from the adjective langur (long). This is a common pattern in Icelandic word formation: to create a verb meaning to make something have a certain quality, the root vowel of the adjective shifts (here, from a to e) and a verb ending is added.
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