Við förum í listasafnið á morgun.

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Breakdown of Við förum í listasafnið á morgun.

• fara: to go
• í: to
• á morgun: tomorrow

Questions & Answers about Við förum í listasafnið á morgun.

What does við mean, and is it always translated as we?

Við is the nominative plural pronoun we.

• It’s used for 1st person plural subjects (the people doing the action).
• It works very much like English we and does not have different forms for “we inclusive/exclusive” the way some languages do.

Other cases of við exist (like okkur = us), but in this sentence við is the subject, so it’s in the nominative form.

Why is it förum and not fara? How is the verb fara conjugated?

Fara is the infinitive to go. In the present tense it’s irregular:

• ég fer – I go
• þú ferð – you (sing.) go
• hann / hún / það fer – he / she / it goes
• við förum – we go
• þið farið – you (pl.) go
• þeir / þær / þau fara – they go

So with við you must use förum.
You’d only use fara after another verb (e.g. mig langar að fara – I want to go), not as the finite verb of the clause.

Why is a present tense form (förum) used to talk about the future (“tomorrow”)?