Við viljum smá þögn meðan við borðum.

to eat

Breakdown of Við viljum smá þögn meðan við borðum.

• vilja: to want
• við: we
• þögnin: the silence

Questions & Answers about Við viljum smá þögn meðan við borðum.

What does við mean here, and is it always just “we”?

Við is the nominative plural personal pronoun “we”.

Key points:

• It’s used as the subject of the sentence.
• Like English we, it refers to the speaker plus at least one other person.
• It’s specifically the nominative form. Other cases of “we/us” exist:
  • okkur = us (accusative and dative)
  • vor = our (genitive, quite formal / mostly written)

So in this sentence við is the normal subject pronoun: “we”.

Why is it viljum and not vilja?