Breakdown of Hvar er sykurinn og hvar er safinn?
vera
to be
og
and
hvar
where
safinn
the juice
sykurinn
the sugar
Questions & Answers about Hvar er sykurinn og hvar er safinn?
How does the word "og" affect the word order in the second half of the sentence?
It doesn't change it at all! Because og (and) is a coordinating conjunction, it just glues two independent sentences together. The second part, hvar er safinn, follows standard question word order: question word + verb + subject, exactly like the first part.
Could I combine this into one question and say "Hvar eru sykurinn og safinn?"
Absolutely. If you do that, you are combining "the sugar" and "the juice" into a single plural subject, so you must use the plural verb eru (are). The example sentence chooses to ask two separate singular questions joined by og, which is why it uses the singular verb er (is) twice.
Why do the words for sugar and juice end with "-inn" and "-nn"?
This is the Icelandic definite article ("the") attached to the end of the word. Both sykur (sugar) and safi (juice) are masculine words. The standard masculine ending for "the" is -inn, giving us sykurinn. However, because safi already ends in a vowel, the "i" in the ending is dropped, making it safinn.
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