Questions & Answers about Það rignir mikið.
Why do we start this sentence with Það?
Það translates to "it", and just like in English, we use it as a dummy subject for weather. Since the rain doesn't have a specific person or thing doing the action, Það steps in to give the verb rignir a subject.
Will the verb rigna always look like rignir when talking about the weather?
Yes! Because the dummy subject það is a third-person singular pronoun (like he, she, or it), weather verbs will always take their third-person singular form. For the base verb rigna (to rain), that form is rignir.
Is mikið a fixed word for "a lot"?
In this context, yes. Mikið is the neuter form of the adjective mikill (much or great). When you want to describe a verb happening "a lot", you always use this specific neuter form to act as an adverb.
How would I turn this into a question, like "Does it rain a lot?"
You simply swap the subject and the verb. There is no "does" word in Icelandic, so you just put the verb first to ask Rignir það mikið?
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