Questions & Answers about Við förum í ferðalag á frídögum.
What exactly does við mean here, and what form of the pronoun is it?
Við means we. It is the nominative plural form of the 1st person pronoun, used for the subject of the sentence.
Very roughly:
- ég – I (singular, nominative)
- við – we (plural, nominative)
Because við is the subject doing the action (going on a trip), it appears in the nominative case.
Why is it förum and not fara or something closer to English "go"?
The verb is fara (to go), and förum is just the present tense, 1st person plural form:
- ég fer – I go
- þú ferð – you (sg.) go
- hann/hún/það fer – he/she/it goes
- við förum – we go
- þið farið – you (pl.) go
- þeir/þær/þau fara – they go
So við förum literally means we go. You cannot say við fara; the verb must agree with the subject in person and number, so with við you need förum.
Does förum here mean we are going right now, or that we usually go (habitually)?