You are thinking in English. The way you would ask the question is "What
are you called" (literally: What do you call yourselves?) That is why you
need the question word 'What' not 'Who'. If you ask who a person or group
of people are, you want to know more about them (closer to 'what makes them,
them and not someone else', what is your background or your pedigree.) If
you want to make a [th] symbol, you can also use the 'alt key symbols' (hold
the alt key while you key the number 0240 [alt+0240]for ð or hold the alt
key while keying 0254 [alt+0254] for þ).

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern@...]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:20 AM
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [norse_course] 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

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