Breakdown of Skartgripurinn er hannaður á Íslandi.
vera
to be
á
onto / on / in (static location) / on (a day of the week)
Ísland
Iceland
skartgripurinn
the piece of jewelry
hanna
to design
Questions & Answers about Skartgripurinn er hannaður á Íslandi.
Why does the word for "designed" end in -ur here (hannaður)?
This is the static passive voice in action! We use the verb vera (to be, here as er) with the past participle of hanna (to design). Because the subject skartgripurinn is a masculine noun in the nominative case, the participle hannaður must take the masculine singular nominative ending -ur to agree with it.
Skartgripurinn is a long word. How is it built?
It is a compound word plus a definite article. Skart means "jewelry" or "ornament," and gripur means "item" or "object". The -inn at the end is the attached word for "the", which is used because skartgripur is a masculine singular noun.
Why is the preposition á used for "in Iceland" instead of í?
In Icelandic, you say you are "on" (á) Iceland, rather than "in" (í) it. This is a common historical quirk when talking about certain islands! Because this sentence describes a static location rather than movement toward a place, the preposition á requires the following noun to be in the dative case, changing Ísland to Íslandi.
What is the dictionary form of the verb for "designed" (hannaður)?
The infinitive (dictionary form) is að hanna (to design). Hannaður is its past participle, which acts almost like an adjective in this sentence to describe the current state of the jewelry.
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