Breakdown of Er endurgerðin að öllu leyti upprunaleg?
vera
to be
allur
all / everything / everyone
að
to, towards
leytið
the extent
upprunalegur
original (initial)
endurgerðin
the restoration
Questions & Answers about Er endurgerðin að öllu leyti upprunaleg?
How does the phrase að öllu leyti fit this lesson's grammar pattern?
This follows the fixed pattern of að + dative neuter adjective + leyti. The neuter noun leyti means an extent or a respect, and it takes the dative case after the preposition að. Here, we insert öllu, which is the dative neuter form of allur (all/every). Literally, it means at all extent, or in every respect.
Can I just say alveg instead of að öllu leyti here?
How does the noun endurgerðin break down?
It is a compound of the prefix endur- (re- or again) and the feminine noun gerð (a making, model, or type, derived from the verb gera). With the feminine definite article -in attached at the end, it literally means the re-making, which translates here as the restoration or the remake.
Why does the adjective upprunaleg not have a visible grammatical ending in this sentence?
It is describing endurgerðin, which is a feminine, singular noun in the nominative case (the subject of the sentence). The strong feminine nominative singular form of adjectives in Icelandic is usually just the bare stem, so the dictionary form upprunalegur (original) drops its masculine -ur ending to become upprunaleg.
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