Questions & Answers about Ég er enn vakandi í kvöld.
What are the literal meanings of each word in Ég er enn vakandi í kvöld?
Word by word:
- Ég – I (first person singular, nominative).
- er – am (1st person singular present of að vera – to be).
- enn – still / yet in a time sense here.
- vakandi – awake (literally the present participle of að vaka, to be awake / stay awake).
- í – in / at / on; here used in a time expression.
- kvöld – evening / tonight; in í kvöld it means this evening / tonight.
So structurally it is: I am still awake this evening / tonight.
What exactly does enn mean here, and how is it different from ennþá?
In this sentence, enn means still or yet in a temporal sense:
- Ég er enn vakandi. – I am still awake.
enn and ennþá overlap a lot and are often interchangeable when they mean still:
- Ég er enn vakandi.
- Ég er ennþá vakandi.
Both are correct. Nuances:
- ennþá is very common and clearly temporal: still, yet (up to now).
- enn can be slightly more neutral or a bit more formal/literary in some contexts, but here it’s perfectly natural.
For an everyday spoken sentence like this, Ég er ennþá vakandi í kvöld is probably even more common than Ég er enn vakandi í kvöld.