Word
Sköpunin er listrænt verkefni.
Meaning
The creation is an artistic project.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Sköpunin er listrænt verkefni.
vera
to be
verkefnið
the assignment
listrænn
artistic
sköpunin
the creation
Questions & Answers about Sköpunin er listrænt verkefni.
How can we tell the gender of sköpun (creation) just by looking at its ending?
The noun sköpun ends in -un. In Icelandic, nouns derived from verbs (like skapa, meaning to create) that end in -un are almost always feminine. Because it is a feminine noun in the nominative case, it takes the definite article suffix -in, becoming sköpunin.
Why is the adjective listrænt (artistic) spelled with a -t at the end here?
It is modifying the noun verkefni, which is a neuter noun. The dictionary form of the adjective is listrænn (masculine). Because verkefni is in the nominative neuter singular, the adjective drops the -nn and adds -t to agree with it.
Verkefni is translated as 'project' here, but how is this word constructed?
It is a compound word made of verk (work, deed, or piece of work) and efni (material, subject, or matter). Literally meaning 'work material', it is a highly versatile word in Icelandic used for a project, a task, an assignment, or even school homework.