Breakdown of Fallegi liturinn á húsinu mun fölna.
húsið
the house
fallegur
beautiful
á
onto / on / in (static location) / on (a day of the week)
liturinn
the color
Questions & Answers about Fallegi liturinn á húsinu mun fölna.
How does the verb fölna demonstrate the -na suffix we are learning?
Fölna means "to fade" or "to turn pale." It is derived from the adjective fölur (pale). By taking the root of the adjective and adding the -na suffix, it becomes an inchoative verb—a verb that describes the process of becoming that adjective. As is typical for -na verbs, it is intransitive, meaning the subject is undergoing the change itself without acting on a direct object.
Why is the adjective fallegi used here instead of the dictionary form fallegur?
Because the noun it modifies, liturinn (the color), has a definite article attached to it (the -inn suffix). When a noun is definite, any preceding adjective must use the weak declension. For a masculine, nominative, singular noun, the weak form of fallegur is fallegi.
Why is húsinu in the dative case here?
The preposition á can take either the accusative or the dative case. It takes the dative when describing a stationary position or location, as it does here with the color currently sitting on the house. It would only take the accusative if it were describing movement onto a destination.
Icelandic often uses the present tense to talk about the future. Why is the auxiliary verb mun used here?