Við förum á fund í hádeginu.

we

Breakdown of Við förum á fund í hádeginu.

• fara: to go
• í: at
• á: to

Questions & Answers about Við förum á fund í hádeginu.

What exactly does Við mean here, and is it always translated as we?

Við is the subject pronoun we in Icelandic.

• It is 1st person plural, nominative case, so it is used when we are the subject of the sentence.
• Other forms of the same pronoun are:
  • okkur – us (accusative and dative)
  • okkar – our / of us (genitive)

Examples:

• Við förum. – We go.
• Hann sér okkur. – He sees us.
• Þetta er bíllinn okkar. – This is our car.

In normal Icelandic, you do not drop the subject pronoun the way you sometimes can in other languages, so you pretty much always say við for we as a subject.

What is förum, and how is it formed from the verb fara?

Förum is the present tense, 1st person plural form of the verb fara (to go).

Present indicative of fara:

• ég fer – I go
• þú ferð – you go (singular)
• hann / hún / það fer – he / she / it goes
• við förum – we go
• þið farið – you go (plural)
• þeir / þær / þau fara – they go

Points to notice:

• The vowel changes from a in the infinitive fara to ö in förum; this kind of vowel change is very common in Icelandic verb paradigms.
• Við förum on its own is simply we go or we are going, depending on context.