Word
Nei, ég er veikur.
Meaning
No, I am sick.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Nei, ég er veikur.
Since this lesson is about Yes/No questions, how would someone ask the question to get this answer?
To ask "Are you sick?", you swap the subject and the verb. You take the regular statement þú ert veikur (you are sick) and flip the order to make the question: Ert þú veikur?
Why does veikur end in -ur? Does it change if a woman is speaking?
Yes, adjectives in Icelandic change depending on the gender of the person they describe. Veikur is the masculine form. If a woman is speaking, she drops the -ur ending and says Nei, ég er veik.
Why isn't the verb first in this sentence, like in the other sentences from this lesson?
Because this sentence is a statement answering the question! In Yes/No questions, the verb jumps to the very front of the sentence. But in a regular statement like this one, the subject (ég) comes before the verb (er), just like in English.