Við borðum saman á veitingastað í seinnipartinn.

to eat

Breakdown of Við borðum saman á veitingastað í seinnipartinn.

• við: we
• saman: together
• í: to

Questions & Answers about Við borðum saman á veitingastað í seinnipartinn.

Why is there no a/an before veitingastað?

Icelandic does not have a separate indefinite article. Indefinite singular nouns appear without any article. Thus veitingastaður simply means a restaurant. To say the restaurant, you add the definite suffix -inn: veitingastaðurinn (nom.) or veitingastaðnum (dat.).

What case does the preposition á take in á veitingastað?

The preposition á can govern either accusative (movement) or dative (location). Here it indicates a static location (at the restaurant), so it takes the dative case: the nominative veitingastaður becomes dative veitingastað.

Why is the noun written as veitingastað rather than veitingastaður or veitingastaðnum?

We need the indefinite dative singular form.

• veitingastaður is nominative sg.
• Dative sg. indefinite: drop -ur, add -i → veitingastað.
• If it were definite (the restaurant), you'd use veitingastaðnum.

Why is borðum used here instead of another form?