Word
Nytjamarkaðurinn er fullur af skrító hlutum.
Meaning
The thrift store is full of weird things.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Nytjamarkaðurinn er fullur af skrító hlutum.
vera
to be
hluturinn
the thing (m)
af
of (in quantity expressions)
fullur
full (not empty)
Questions & Answers about Nytjamarkaðurinn er fullur af skrító hlutum.
How is skrító formed, and why doesn't it have a dative plural ending to match hlutum?
The suffix -ó is added to the root of skrítinn (weird) to create a casual, colloquial slang word. A key feature of these -ó adjectives is that they are totally indeclinable. That is why skrító stays exactly the same, even though it modifies the dative plural noun hlutum.
What is the literal breakdown of the word Nytjamarkaðurinn?
Why is hlutum in the dative case?
It is governed by the preposition af. When you say something is 'full of' something else in Icelandic, you use fullur af, and the preposition af always forces the noun that follows it into the dative case.
Why does fullur end in -ur here instead of taking a neutral form?