Við stöflum flutningakössunum.

we

Breakdown of Við stöflum flutningakössunum.

• flutningakassinn: the moving box
• stafla: to stack

Questions & Answers about Við stöflum flutningakössunum.

What form is stöflum?

It is the present tense, first-person plural form of að stafla.

So við stöflum means we stack or we are stacking.

Why does the verb appear as stöflum instead of stafla?

Because Icelandic changes the verb to match the subject.

The dictionary form is að stafla, but with við you need the we form, which is stöflum.

There is also a vowel change here:

• a often becomes ö before an ending with u
• the ending for we is -um

So:

• stafla → stöflum

This vowel change is very common in Icelandic and is often called u-umlaut.

Why is flutningakössunum one long word?