Breakdown of Fjörutíu Íslendingar fljúga frá Akureyri í dag.
Íslendingurinn
the Icelander
í dag
today
frá
from
fljúga
to fly
Akureyri
Akureyri
fjörutíu
forty
Questions & Answers about Fjörutíu Íslendingar fljúga frá Akureyri í dag.
Do I need to change the ending of fjörutíu to match the masculine plural word Íslendingar?
No, you do not! While numbers 1 through 4 change to match gender and case, the 'tens' from 30 to 100 (like fjörutíu) never decline. They stay exactly the same no matter what noun they describe.
Why is forty fjörutíu instead of just combining the standard words for four and ten?
It actually is a combination of four and ten, just using a slightly shifted form. It comes from an old grammatical form of four squished together with ten (tíu). You will notice similar sound shifts in other tens, like þrjátíu (thirty) instead of þrjútíu.
How do we get the word Íslendingar from Iceland?
Does the preposition frá change the case of the town Akureyri?
Yes, the preposition frá (from) always requires the noun following it to be in the dative case. However, the town name Akureyri has the exact same form in the nominative, accusative, and dative cases, so it doesn't look any different here!
We learned dagur for day. Why is it í dag here?
In the set phrase í dag meaning 'today', the preposition í forces the word into the accusative case. The word dagur is a masculine noun that drops its -ur ending in the accusative case, leaving just dag.
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