Word
Eftir að hafa heimsótt fósturheimilið ákváðum við að ættleiða hvolpinn.
Meaning
After visiting the foster home, we decided to adopt the puppy.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Eftir að hafa heimsótt fósturheimilið ákváðum við að ættleiða hvolpinn.
við
we
að
to
heimsækja
to visit
ákveða
to decide
Questions & Answers about Eftir að hafa heimsótt fósturheimilið ákváðum við að ættleiða hvolpinn.
What does Eftir að hafa heimsótt mean?
It means after visiting or, more literally, after having visited.
- eftir = after
- að hafa heimsótt = to have visited
So the sentence begins with a completed action that happened before the deciding.
Why is hafa used here?
Hafa is used to show that the visiting happened before the main action.
In other words:
- first: they visited
- then: they decided
So að hafa heimsótt gives the idea having visited or after having visited.
Why is it heimsótt and not heimsækja?
Because after hafa, Icelandic uses the form that corresponds to English visited in have visited.
- heimsækja = to visit
- hafa heimsótt = have visited
So heimsótt is the correct form after hafa here.
Why is the word order ákváðum við instead of við ákváðum?