Við horfum á bíómynd í kvöld.

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Breakdown of Við horfum á bíómynd í kvöld.

• í kvöld: tonight
• horfa á: to look at
• bíómynd: the movie

Questions & Answers about Við horfum á bíómynd í kvöld.

What does each word in Við horfum á bíómynd í kvöld literally mean, and how does the word order compare to English?

Word by word:

• Við = we
• horfum = (we) watch / (we are) watching (present tense of horfa)
• á = at / on / to, but here it’s just the preposition required by horfa
• bíómynd = movie / film (literally cinema-picture)
• í = in, but in time expressions often translates as this / tonight / today depending on context
• kvöld = evening

So a very literal gloss could be:

We watch at movie in evening.

Idiomatic English: We’re watching a movie tonight.

The word order is the same basic pattern as English:
Subject – Verb – (Preposition) – Object – Time
→ Við (we) horfum (watch) á bíómynd (a movie) í kvöld (tonight).

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Why is the verb horfum in the present tense if the sentence means “We’re watching a movie tonight / We will watch a movie tonight”?