Breakdown of Sérð þú húfuna mína og úlpuna mína?
og
and
þú
you
sjá
to see
minn
my (m, f, n: minn, mín, mitt)
húfan
the beanie
úlpan
the winter coat
Questions & Answers about Sérð þú húfuna mína og úlpuna mína?
Why does the sentence start with the verb Sérð?
To ask a yes/no question in Icelandic, you swap the subject and the verb. While a statement is Þú sérð (You see), the question form becomes Sérð þú (Do you see?).
Why are húfuna and úlpuna in the accusative case?
They are the direct objects of the verb sjá (to see). When you see a thing, that thing receives the action of the verb and must take the accusative case.
Why is the word for 'my' written as mína here instead of minn?
Possessive pronouns must match the noun they belong to in gender, number, and case. Both húfa (beanie) and úlpa (winter coat) are feminine words, and they are in the accusative case here. The feminine, singular, accusative form of minn (my) is mína.
húfuna and úlpuna both end in -na, which means 'the'. Why does Icelandic say 'the beanie my'?
In Icelandic, when a possessive pronoun like mína comes right after a noun, that noun almost always takes the definite article (the 'the' ending). So you literally say 'beanie-the my' (húfuna mína) and 'coat-the my' (úlpuna mína).
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