Ég fer strax heim.

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Breakdown of Ég fer strax heim.

• fara: to go
• heim: the home
• strax: immediately

Questions & Answers about Ég fer strax heim.

What does Ég mean?

Ég is the first-person singular pronoun in Icelandic. It means I.

Why do you need the pronoun Ég? In languages like Spanish you can drop it.

Icelandic is not a pro-drop language. Although the verb ending tells you the person (e.g. fer is “I go”), you still normally include ég for clarity and naturalness.

What is fer and how does it relate to að fara?

Fer is the present-tense, first-person singular form of the irregular verb að fara, which means to go. The full present-tense paradigm looks roughly like:

• ég fer (I go)
• þú ferð (you go)
• hann/hún fer (he/she goes)
• við förum (we go)
  …etc.

What does strax mean, and how is it different from words like brátt or seinna?

Strax means right away or immediately.

• Brátt means soon (in a little while).
• Seinna means later (after some time has passed).