Við eigum stefnumót í kvöld.

Eigum is the 1st person plural present tense of eiga.

So:

• ég á = I have
• þú átt = you have
• við eigum = we have

The basic meaning of eiga is to have / to own, and Icelandic uses it in the same kind of way English uses have in phrases like have a date, have a meeting, or have an appointment.

Because Icelandic does not have an indefinite article. There is no separate word for a/an.

So stefnumót by itself can mean:

• a date
• an appointment
• a rendezvous

If you wanted to say the date / the appointment, Icelandic would usually add the definite article to the end of the noun: stefnumótið.

Here it is singular: a date / an appointment.

This can be confusing because Icelandic neuter nouns often have forms that look the same in different cases, and sometimes singular and plural forms can also look similar. In this sentence, the meaning is singular.

Also, eigum is plural because við means we. The verb agrees with the subject, not with stefnumót.

It is the direct object of eigum, so it is in the accusative.

However, with this noun, the accusative singular looks the same as the nominative singular, so the form stays stefnumót. That is very common with neuter nouns in Icelandic.

Not always. Stefnumót often means a date, and in many contexts that does sound romantic. But it can also mean an appointment, rendezvous, or an arranged meeting.

So the exact English translation depends on context:

• romantic context: date
• more neutral context: appointment or meeting

Í kvöld is a fixed time expression meaning tonight or this evening.

Literally, it is something like in evening, but you should learn it as a natural Icelandic phrase. Icelandic uses similar expressions with í in time phrases, for example:

• í dag = today
• í morgun = this morning
• í kvöld = tonight

So in this sentence, í kvöld simply tells you when the date or appointment is.

Yes. That is completely natural.

Icelandic is a verb-second language, so when you move í kvöld to the front for emphasis, the verb still comes second:

• Við eigum stefnumót í kvöld.
• Í kvöld eigum við stefnumót.

Both are correct. The second version puts a little more focus on tonight.

Yes, here við means we.

Icelandic also has a word spelled við that can function as a preposition, often meaning things like with, by, against, or at, depending on context. But in this sentence it is clearly the subject pronoun because it is followed by the verb eigum.

So here:

• Við = we

Normally, you should include við.

Even though the verb form eigum already shows we, modern Icelandic usually keeps the subject pronoun. So Við eigum stefnumót í kvöld is the normal full sentence.

Without við, the sentence would usually sound incomplete unless it appeared in a very special context, such as poetry, notes, or highly informal shorthand.