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kveikti og bað fyrir sér

English translation: switch on the light

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Icelandic term or phrase:kveikja
English translation:switch on the light

12:04 Jan 23, 2004
Icelandic to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary
Icelandic term or phrase: kveikti og bað fyrir sér
107:26 Lísibet kveikti og bað fyrir sér, þegar hún sá, hvað
107:27 fósturdóttir hennar var föl. "Blessað barnið!" Þú verður
107:28 að hátta hjá mér. Þitt rúm er svo kalt. En þú, Jón minn,
107:29 skalt fá þér eitthvað að borða frammi í búri, áður en þú
107:30 ferð að hátta."
Lísibet kveikti og bað fyrir sér, þegar hún sá, hvað fósturdóttir hennar var föl. "Blessað barnið!" Þú verður að hátta hjá mér. Þitt rúm er svo kalt. En þú, Jón minn, skalt fá þér eitthvað að borða frammi í búri, áður en þú ferð að hátta."
SeiTT
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:27
turned on the light and prayed silently
Explanation:
"Að biðja fyrir einhverjum" means to pray for someone, but it doesn´t make much sense to me that she would pray for herself instead of praying for her foster daughter. Therefore I would guess it means she turned on the light and prayed silently when she saw how pale her foster daughter was.
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Birgir Davidsson
Iceland
Local time: 03:27
Grading comment
Many thanks Birgir - I think that what threw me was the lack of an object with KVEIKJA.
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4turned on the light and prayed silently
Birgir Davidsson


  

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turned on the light and prayed silently


Explanation:
"Að biðja fyrir einhverjum" means to pray for someone, but it doesn´t make much sense to me that she would pray for herself instead of praying for her foster daughter. Therefore I would guess it means she turned on the light and prayed silently when she saw how pale her foster daughter was.

Birgir Davidsson
Iceland
Local time: 03:27
Native speaker of: Native in IcelandicIcelandic
PRO pts in pair: 24
Grading comment
Many thanks Birgir - I think that what threw me was the lack of an object with KVEIKJA.
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