Word
Mig langar að vinna með áhugaverðum listamönnum.
Meaning
I want to work with interesting artists.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Mig langar að vinna með áhugaverðum listamönnum.
mig
me (acc)
langa
to want
að
to (infinitive marker)
vinna
to work (general labor, to do work)
Questions & Answers about Mig langar að vinna með áhugaverðum listamönnum.
Why do both áhugaverðum and listamönnum end in -um?
The preposition með means "together with" here, which forces the words that follow it into the dative case. Because we are talking about multiple artists, both the noun and the strong adjective must take the dative plural ending, which is -um.
Does the adjective ending -um change depending on the gender of the noun?
No! One of the best things about strong adjectives in the dative plural is that the ending is always -um, regardless of whether the noun is masculine, feminine, or neuter.
Why does the sentence start with Mig instead of Ég?
The verb langa (to want) is an impersonal verb. This means it doesn't take a standard subject. Instead, it forces the person experiencing the desire into the accusative case. So, you must use mig (me) rather than ég (I).
How does the base word listamaður (artist) turn into listamönnum?
The word ends in -maður (man). To make it dative plural, we add the -um ending. In Icelandic, adding an ending containing a "u" usually triggers a vowel shift that changes an "a" earlier in the word to an "ö". So, the plural root mann- plus -um becomes -mönnum.