Questions & Answers about Kvöldgangan í dag verður styttri en í gær.
Kvöldgangan is the evening walk.
The base word is kvöldganga (evening walk), a feminine noun. When you add the definite article (the) in Icelandic, you usually attach it to the end of the noun instead of putting a separate word in front.
So:
- kvöldganga = evening walk
- kvöldgangan = the evening walk
Here, Kvöldgangan is the subject of the sentence, in the nominative case, definite singular feminine.
Kvöldganga is a compound noun:
- kvöld = evening
- ganga = walk, walking
Icelandic very often forms new nouns by putting two nouns together. In English you write evening walk as two words; in Icelandic it becomes one word: kvöldganga. When you make it definite (the evening walk), it becomes kvöldgangan.
Yes, í dag literally means in day.
This is just an idiomatic time expression in Icelandic, and it’s the normal way to say today. It’s treated as a fixed phrase.
Grammatically:
- í = in
- dag = day (accusative singular of dagur)
Similarly, í gær literally means in yesterday, but together they mean yesterday as a time expression.