Breakdown of Geymslan sem við göngum út úr er mjög köld.
vera
to be
við
we
mjög
very
ganga
to walk
kaldur
cold
úr
out of
út
out (motion outwards)
sem
who / which / that
geymslan
the storage room
Questions & Answers about Geymslan sem við göngum út úr er mjög köld.
Why does this sentence use úr instead of frá to mean "out of"?
The preposition úr is used when you are moving out from the inside of an enclosed space or container. Since a storage room (geymsla) is a defined room you go inside, you walk úr (out of) it. If you were just walking away from the general area of the building, you would use frá.
Why do we need the word út before úr?
You will often see the directional adverb út (outwards) paired with the preposition úr (out of). While úr alone tells you the origin of the movement (the enclosed space), adding út emphasizes the physical direction of your action, just like saying "walk out" in English.
The lesson says úr triggers the dative case, so why isn't there a dative word right after it?
This is a relative clause connected by sem (that). The thing we are walking out of is Geymslan (the storage room) at the very beginning of the sentence. Just like in English, when a preposition points back to the noun before sem, it gets left at the end of that clause: "the room that we walk out of".
Why is the word for cold spelled köld here instead of kaldur or kalt?
Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. The noun being described is geymslan (the storage room), which is a feminine word. Therefore, the standard masculine adjective kaldur must change to its feminine form, köld.
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