Word
Við teljum ekki fram í ljósi þess að launamiðinn er rangur.
Meaning
We do not file in light of the fact that the pay statement is wrong.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Við teljum ekki fram í ljósi þess að launamiðinn er rangur.
vera
to be
ekki
not
við
we
rangur
wrong
Questions & Answers about Við teljum ekki fram í ljósi þess að launamiðinn er rangur.
Why is it við teljum and not just telja?
Because við means we, and the verb has to match that subject.
- The infinitive is að telja = to count / to declare / to report.
- The present-tense form for við (we) is teljum.
So:
- ég tel = I count
- þú telur = you count
- við teljum = we count
The ending -um is a very common present-tense ending for we in Icelandic.
Why does ekki come after teljum?
In a normal Icelandic main clause, ekki usually comes after the finite verb.
So the structure is:
- Við teljum ekki ...
- literally: We count not ...
That may feel different from English, where we say we do not count / we are not declaring, but it is normal Icelandic word order.
Compare:
- Ég skil ekki. = I do not understand.
- Hún kemur ekki. = She is not coming.
- Við teljum ekki fram. = We are not filing / reporting.
What does telja fram mean here? Why is fram needed?