Questions & Answers about Ég þarf að sofa lengur í kvöld.
Roughly word-for-word:
- Ég – I (subject pronoun, nominative case)
- þarf – need / have to (1st person singular present of að þurfa)
- að – to (marks the infinitive verb sofa)
- sofa – sleep (infinitive form, to sleep)
- lengur – longer (comparative of lengi “for a long time” → lengur “for longer”)
- í kvöld – this evening / tonight (literally “in the evening” with the meaning “this coming evening / tonight” in context)
Þarf is the correctly conjugated present-tense form of the verb að þurfa (to need) for ég (I).
- Infinitive: að þurfa – to need
- 1st person singular present: ég þarf – I need
- 2nd person singular: þú þarft
- 3rd person singular: hann/hún/það þarf
- Plural: við þurfum, þið þurfið, þeir/þær/þau þurfa
Icelandic main (finite) verbs are normally in second position in a clause, so the order is:
- Ég þarf ... not Ég að þarf ... and not just Ég þurfa ...