Level A1

Why?

“Af hverju?” means “why?”.[a] It has an extremely slurred pronounciation and is in most cases pronounced [a(h)kkuru].
“Af því að” means “because”.[b] The letter V in “því” is usually not pronounced,[c] and even the F and the Ð are quite soft in this phrase so they also disappear.[d] The pronunciation is therefor [a þí a].
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Footnotes
  • a. Word-by-word the translation is “Of what [reason]?” “Hverju” is the dative case (the third case) of “hvað” (what).
  • b. Word-by-word the translation is “Of that [reason] that”. “Því” is the dative case (the third case) of “það”.
  • c. This almost never happens in other words.
  • d. Ð always has a tendency to disappear; F disappears only because the Þ next to it overshadows it.
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