Breakdown of Hjúkrunarfræðingurinn mælir hita sjúklingsins.
hitinn
the temperature
mæla
to measure
sjúklingurinn
the patient
hjúkrunarfræðingurinn
the nurse
Questions & Answers about Hjúkrunarfræðingurinn mælir hita sjúklingsins.
How is the word sjúklingsins formed?
It is in the genitive case because it shows possession (the patient's). For masculine nouns like sjúklingur, you first add -s to make it genitive (sjúklings), and then add the genitive definite article -ins to say the patient's, giving us sjúklingsins.
Why does sjúklingsins come after hita instead of before it like in English?
In Icelandic, the word showing possession (the genitive noun) almost always comes after the thing being owned. Instead of saying the patient's temperature, Icelandic phrases it like temperature the patient's (hita sjúklingsins).
Why is it hita instead of hiti?
The word hiti (temperature) is the direct object being measured, so the verb mælir forces it into the accusative case. Because it is a weak masculine noun ending in -i, it changes to -a in the accusative, becoming hita.
Hjúkrunarfræðingurinn is a huge word! Can we break it down?
Yes! It is a compound word made of hjúkrun (nursing) and fræðingur (specialist). The -ar- in the middle links them together, and the -inn at the end is the masculine definite article (the). So it literally means the nursing specialist.
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