Ég get unnið.

Get is the 1st person singular present form of the Icelandic verb geta, which means can / be able to.

So:

• ég get = I can

It only happens to look like the English word get. It is not used the same way.

Unnið is the form of vinna used after geta in a sentence like this. Many grammars call this the supine. It is also the same form you see in the perfect tense, for example:

• ég hef unnið

That is why Icelandic says ég get unnið, not ég get vinna.

Yes. Vinna is irregular, which is why its forms do not look very similar.

Important forms are:

• vinna — dictionary form
• vann — past tense
• unnið — supine / past participle form

So even though vinna and unnið look quite different, they belong to the same verb.

With geta, the next verb comes directly, without að.

So you say:

• Ég get unnið.

not:

• Ég get að unnið.
• Ég get að vinna.

This is just how geta works in this pattern.

No, not in this construction. The part that changes is geta:

• ég get
• þú getur
• hann/hún/það getur
• við getum
• þið getið
• þeir/þær/þau geta

But the second verb stays unnið:

• Ég get unnið.
• Þú getur unnið.
• Við getum unnið.

Yes. Vinna can mean work and also win. So unnið can correspond to either idea, depending on context.

That means the grammar stays the same, but the surrounding situation tells you which meaning is intended.

A rough English approximation is:

yeg gyet UNN-ith

A few notes:

• Ég starts with a y sound.
• get has a fronted g/k-like sound before e.
• ð in unnið is a soft th sound.

This is only an approximation, because Icelandic sounds do not match English exactly.

Yes. The accent mark is part of the spelling and pronunciation.

• é is not the same as plain e

So Ég should not normally be written as Eg. In Icelandic, accent marks are real letters features, not optional decoration.

To make it negative, add ekki:

• Ég get ekki unnið.

To make it a yes/no question, Icelandic usually puts the finite verb first:

• Getur þú unnið?
• Geturðu unnið?

The second version is a very common spoken-and-written contraction of getur þú.