Word
Við tölum oft um mismunandi árstíðir og hvernig veðrið breytist.
Meaning
We often talk about different seasons and how the weather changes.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Við tölum oft um mismunandi árstíðir og hvernig veðrið breytist.
við
we
veðrið
the weather
hvernig
how
og
and
Questions & Answers about Við tölum oft um mismunandi árstíðir og hvernig veðrið breytist.
Why is it tölum and not tala after við?
In Icelandic, verbs change form to agree with the subject (person and number).
The verb here is að tala (to speak, to talk). Its present tense is:
- ég tala – I speak
- þú talar – you (sg.) speak
- hann / hún / það talar – he / she / it speaks
- við tölum – we speak
- þið talið – you (pl.) speak
- þeir / þær / þau tala – they speak
So with við (we), you must use the 1st person plural form tölum, not the base form tala.
The vowel change a → ö is due to a historical sound change (called u-umlaut) that shows up in some verb forms like tölum, förum, komum, etc. You just learn these as part of the conjugation.
Why is the word order Við tölum oft and not Við oft tölum?