Beygðu til hægri við kaffihúsið.

Turn right at the café.

Breakdown of Beygðu til hægri við kaffihúsið.

• til: to
• kaffihúsið: the café
• við: at
• beygja: to turn

Questions & Answers about Beygðu til hægri við kaffihúsið.

What grammatical form is the word Beygðu?

It’s the 2nd-person singular imperative of the verb beygja (to turn/bend). It’s a direct command addressed to one person: “Turn!”

How do I say it to more than one person?

Use the plural imperative: Beygið til hægri við kaffihúsið. That addresses two or more people.

Can I drop til and say “Beygðu hægri”?

No. In Icelandic directions you normally say til hægri / til vinstri. The phrase is fixed; Beygðu hægri sounds wrong. So: Beygðu til hægri (“Turn to the right”).

What exactly is going on in til hægri grammatically?

• til is a preposition that governs the genitive.
• hægri is part of the set phrase til hægri (“to the right”).
  Treat til hægri (and til vinstri) as fixed adverbial expressions. Don’t try to change hægri to another case form here.

What does við mean here, and which case does it take?

Here við means “at/by/next to” and it takes the accusative. That’s why we get við kaffihúsið (accusative singular, definite).