Ég elska frí.

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Breakdown of Ég elska frí.

• elska: to love
• frí: the vacation

Questions & Answers about Ég elska frí.

Why is Ég written with an accent, and how is it pronounced?

The accent in Ég shows that the vowel is long.

• Ég is pronounced roughly like “yayg”: /jɛːɡ/
  
  • j = English y in yes
  • é = a long vowel, similar to ye in yes but held a bit longer
  • final g is often quite soft, sometimes almost like a soft k or a weak fricative, depending on the speaker.

So the whole word is one syllable, with a long vowel: Ég = /jɛːɡ/.

Why is Ég capitalized? Is I always capitalized in Icelandic like in English?

Ég is capitalized here only because it is the first word in the sentence.

In Icelandic, the first‑person pronoun ég is normally not capitalized in the middle of a sentence.

• English: I is always written with a capital letter.
• Icelandic: ég is written with a lowercase é unless it starts the sentence.

Example:

• Ég er þreytt, en þú ert hress.
  
  • ég is capitalized only because it is at the beginning.

What form of the verb is elska here, and how does it conjugate?