Breakdown of Ég tek kjötið úr frystinum en ávöxtinn úr búrinu.
ég
I
en
but
taka
to take
úr
out of
kjötið
the meat
ávöxturinn
the fruit
frystirinn
the freezer
búrið
the pantry
Questions & Answers about Ég tek kjötið úr frystinum en ávöxtinn úr búrinu.
Why do we use úr instead of frá in this sentence?
The preposition úr specifically means moving out of a container or an enclosed space. Since a freezer (frystir) and a pantry (búr) are spaces that hold things inside them, you take the food out of them using úr. If you were just stepping away from the general area of the freezer, you would use frá.
What case do the words for freezer and pantry need to be in here?
They must be in the dative case because the preposition úr always forces the noun that follows it into the dative. That is why we use the dative definite forms frystinum (out of the freezer) and búrinu (out of the pantry).
The dictionary word for freezer is frystir. How does it become frystinum?
Frystir is a masculine noun. In the dative case, the word itself changes to frysti. When you attach the masculine dative definite article (the suffix that means 'the') to the end of it, it becomes frystinum.
Why do kjötið (the meat) and ávöxtinn (the fruit) take the accusative case?
They are the direct objects of the verb að taka (to take) because they are the items being taken. The masculine noun ávöxtur becomes ávöxt in the accusative, and adding the 'the' ending makes it ávöxtinn. The neuter noun kjöt happens to look exactly the same in both the basic nominative and the accusative cases.
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