Word
Við kaupum sokkana í dag.
Meaning
We are buying the socks today.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Við kaupum sokkana í dag.
Why is the word for 'the socks' sokkana here instead of sokkar?
Sokkar is the subject form (nominative). Because the socks are the object receiving the action of being bought, they must be in the accusative case. For masculine nouns like sokkur, the accusative plural is sokka. To say 'the' socks, we add the definite ending -na, giving us sokkana.
How would this sentence change if we were just buying 'socks' (not 'the socks')?
You would simply remove the definite ending -na from the noun to make it bare. The sentence would be Við kaupum sokka í dag.
Why do we use kaupum instead of the dictionary form kaupa?
In Icelandic, verbs change their endings based on who is doing the action. Whenever the subject is við (we), the verb almost always takes the -um ending in the present tense.
Why is 'today' written as two words (í dag)?
In Icelandic, 'today' is expressed with the phrase í dag, which literally translates to 'in day'.