Breakdown of Við lagfærum skattstofninn því að fjármagnstekjurnar eru rangar.
vera
to be
við
we
því að
because
rangur
wrong
Questions & Answers about Við lagfærum skattstofninn því að fjármagnstekjurnar eru rangar.
What does lagfærum mean grammatically?
Lagfærum is the present tense, 1st person plural form of the verb lagfæra.
So:
- ég lagfæri = I fix / amend
- við lagfærum = we fix / amend
The ending -um is a common we ending in Icelandic present tense verbs.
Why is it við lagfærum and not just lagfærum?
Icelandic often allows the subject pronoun to be dropped less freely than Spanish or Italian, so keeping við is normal and clear. It explicitly tells you the subject is we.
In some contexts, the verb form alone might make the meaning obvious, but við is completely natural here.
What exactly is skattstofninn?
Skattstofninn is the noun skattstofn with the definite article attached.
Breakdown:
- skattstofn = tax base / taxable base
- -inn = the
So skattstofninn means the tax base.
This is a very typical Icelandic pattern: instead of a separate word for the, Icelandic usually adds the article to the end of the noun.