Questions & Answers about Ég fer reglulega í bókasafnið.
What does each word in Ég fer reglulega í bókasafnið literally mean?
Broken down:
- Ég – I (first person singular pronoun).
- fer – go (first person singular present tense of the verb fara, “to go”).
- reglulega – regularly, on a regular basis.
- í – to / into / in, here meaning to/into the library (motion towards a place).
- bókasafnið – the library. Literally: bóka (books, genitive plural of bók, “book”) + safn (collection, museum, gathering) + -ið (definite article ending for neuter nouns in the accusative singular). So literally “the collection of books.”
Why is it fer and not just the infinitive form fara?