Re: Another Sentence

Thanks for your help, I apologize not using a norse font, I don't have
one at this particular computer, and don't know how to use it in Yahoo
groups via the web.

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Haukur Thorgeirsson"
<haukurth@...> wrote:

> > I translated Who are you? (you being plural) into:
> >
> > Thik Heitir
> >
> > Are being the verb, and Thik being the accusatory plural form of

you.

> >
> > Is this correct?
>
> Not quite. Here are the problems.
>
> 1. The form 'þik' is indeed accusative - however
> the nominative is called for here (the verbs 'vera'
> and 'heita' take a nominative complement, not an
> accusative object).
>
> 2. The form 'þik' is not plural, it is singular.
>

So It would be ther?

> 3. The form 'heitir' is not plural second person,
> it is singular third person.
>

Is it heitio?

> 4. The question word is missing.
>

Reading lesson 2, it says "word order" indicates questioning. to

Verb - Subject - Object

So:

verb Subject Object
heitio ? ther

Is this right. That would make the subject who?

Or is it just heitio ther?
(Are you?)


Thanks.

Scott Mohnkern.

> Kveðja,
> Haukur