Breakdown of Inniskórnir eru kósí og mér líður vel.
vera
to be
og
and
vel
well
mér
me (dative)
líða
to feel
inniskórinn
the slipper
kósí
cozy
Questions & Answers about Inniskórnir eru kósí og mér líður vel.
Why is it mér líður instead of 'ég líð'?
The verb líða (to feel) is an impersonal verb. This means the person experiencing the feeling is grammatically the object, not the subject, and must take the dative case (mér). The verb itself stays in the 3rd-person singular form (líður) regardless of who is feeling the emotion.
How is the word inniskórnir built?
It is a compound word: inni (inside or indoors) + skór (shoes) + -nir (the masculine plural definite article 'the'). So it literally translates to 'the indoor shoes'.
The slippers are plural, so why doesn't the adjective kósí change its ending to match?
Kósí is a loanword borrowed directly from the English word 'cozy'. In Icelandic, loanwords that end in a vowel are almost always indeclinable. This means they never change their endings to match gender or number, so it stays kósí whether you are talking about one slipper or two.
In English we say 'I feel good', but Icelandic uses vel (well). Why?
In Icelandic, states of being expressed with líða are described using adverbs rather than adjectives. Because the literal grammatical structure is closer to 'it is feeling well to me', you use the adverb vel (well) instead of an adjective like góður (good).
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