Breakdown of Hefur bruggið gerjast vel í ílátinu?
vel
well
í
in / into / to (before the hour, in telling time) / per (in frequency expressions)
hafa
to have
ílátið
the container
bruggið
the brew
gerjast
to ferment
Questions & Answers about Hefur bruggið gerjast vel í ílátinu?
How is the supine (sagnbót) formed for the middle voice verb gerjast in this sentence?
The active infinitive is gerja and its active supine is gerjað. To form the middle voice supine, you drop the -ð from the active supine and add -st. This gives us gerjast, which happens to look exactly the same as the infinitive form.
Why use the middle voice gerjast here instead of the active form gerja?
The active verb gerja means "to ferment something" (an action done to an object). The middle voice gerjast is used here because the brew is fermenting on its own. It describes a spontaneous change happening to the subject (bruggið) rather than an action the subject is performing on something else.
Why is ílátinu in the dative case?
The preposition í governs the dative case when describing a stationary location or state (being "in" the container). If the sentence described movement towards a destination (putting something "into" the container), í would take the accusative case instead.
What gender is bruggið and why doesn't the root word have a case ending here?
The root word is brugg, which is a neuter noun. Neuter nouns typically do not take a suffix in the nominative and accusative singular. The -ið at the end is just the attached definite article ("the"), making it bruggið.
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