Við bökum köku saman á sunnudögum.

we

Breakdown of Við bökum köku saman á sunnudögum.

• saman: together
• á: on
• kaka: the cake

Questions & Answers about Við bökum köku saman á sunnudögum.

What does each word in Við bökum köku saman á sunnudögum literally mean?

Roughly, word‑for‑word:

• Við – we (subject pronoun, nominative case)
• bökum – bake (present tense, we form of the verb baka)
• köku – cake (accusative singular of kaka, the direct object)
• saman – together
• á – on (preposition)
• sunnudögum – Sundays (dative plural of sunnudagur, used here for a habitual time expression)

So the whole sentence means roughly: We bake cake together on Sundays.
(In natural English: We bake a cake together on Sundays.)

Why is it bökum and not baka or bakar?

Baka is the dictionary form (infinitive: to bake).

In the present tense, baka is conjugated like this:

• ég baka – I bake
• þú bakar – you (singular) bake
• hann/hún/það bakar – he/she/it bakes
• við bökum – we bake
• þið bakið – you (plural) bake
• þeir/þær/þau baka – they bake

So with við (we), the correct form is bökum.
The change is a regular vowel change called that happens in some verb forms when a follows in the ending (here: ).