Breakdown of Magnið er of mikið, þess vegna tökum við það ekki.
vera
to be
það
it / there (existential) / the one (n)
ekki
not
við
we
taka
to take
mikill
great, much (adjective: snjórinn er mikill)
of
too
þess vegna
therefore, that is why
magnið
the quantity
Questions & Answers about Magnið er of mikið, þess vegna tökum við það ekki.
Why does the pronoun það come before ekki here?
This is the main clause object shift you are currently learning. When the object is an unstressed pronoun like það, it hops in front of sentence adverbs like ekki. If the object were a regular noun, it would stay after the adverb (for example: við tökum ekki magnið).
Why is the word order tökum við rather than við tökum in the second clause?
Why use the form mikið here instead of mikill or mikil?
The adjective must agree with the subject it describes. Since magnið (the quantity) is a neuter noun, the adjective takes the neuter singular form mikið.
What is the literal breakdown of þess vegna?
It literally means 'because of that.' The word vegna means 'because of' and it always takes the genitive case. Þess is simply the genitive form of the pronoun það.
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