Ég borða einn í kvöld.

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Breakdown of Ég borða einn í kvöld.

• borða: to eat
• í kvöld: tonight
• einn: alone

Questions & Answers about Ég borða einn í kvöld.

What does each word in Ég borða einn í kvöld. mean literally?

Word by word:

• Ég – I (1st person singular subject pronoun).
• borða – eat.
  
  • This is the present tense, 1st person singular form of the verb að borða (to eat).
• einn – can mean one (the number) or alone, depending on context.
• í – in, at, or on, but here it’s part of a fixed time expression.
• kvöld – evening.
  
  • In the phrase í kvöld, it means this evening / tonight as a whole expression.

So literally: I eat one/alone in evening, which is understood idiomatically as something like I’ll eat alone tonight (or, in another context, I’ll eat one (masculine thing) tonight).

Why is the verb borða in the present tense when English would normally say will eat?