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15 Dec 2019
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Question about Icelandic
Þú drekkur vatnið barnsins þíns. Is it correct? I know sentences is weird but I’m asking in the first place for “þíns”.
Þú drekkur vatnið barnsins þíns. Is it correct? I know sentences is weird but I’m asking in the first place for “þíns”.
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Well “þíns” is correct but about the water, it’s supposed to be “vatn”, I don’t know how to explain why but it’s like that
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@amanda_rose05 Okay, thank you very much! I’m a little confused about the genitive, I think it’s very hard. I often see that people use the definitive form of the noun, but sometimes they don’t.
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