Word
Ég er að spjalla við bakarann sem á bakaríið.
Meaning
I am chatting with the baker who owns the bakery.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Ég er að spjalla við bakarann sem á bakaríið.
vera
to be
ég
I
að
to (infinitive marker)
eiga
to own / to have (a relationship)
Questions & Answers about Ég er að spjalla við bakarann sem á bakaríið.
Why is the word for baker written as bakarann here?
The preposition við (with) takes the accusative case when you are talking or chatting with someone. Even though your current lesson focuses on prepositions taking the dative case for location, it is important to remember that við usually triggers the accusative. The base masculine noun bakari (a baker) becomes bakarinn (the baker) in the nominative, and changes to bakarann in the accusative.
Is the word á in this sentence the preposition for "on"?
No, here á is a verb! It is the third-person singular form of the verb eiga, which means "to own" or "to have." The relative pronoun sem (who/that) connects it to the baker, so sem á means "who owns."
How does the word bakaríið get its ending?
Bakarí is a neuter noun meaning "bakery." To say "the bakery," you attach the neuter definite article -ið to the end, making it bakaríið. It is in the accusative case here because it is the direct object of the verb eiga (to own). For neuter words, the accusative form luckily looks exactly the same as the nominative form.
Why do we use er að spjalla instead of just spjalla?