Við skoðum póstkortin í stofunni.

we

Breakdown of Við skoðum póstkortin í stofunni.

• í: in
• stofan: the living room
• póstkortið: the postcard

Questions & Answers about Við skoðum póstkortin í stofunni.

What does Við mean, and what kind of word is it?

Við is the personal pronoun we.

Grammatically:

• Person: 1st person
• Number: plural
• Case: nominative (subject form)

It is the subject of the sentence, the people who are doing the action of skoðum.

Why is it skoðum and not skoða in this sentence?

The verb is að skoða (to look at / examine). In the present tense, it changes according to the subject:

• ég skoða – I look at
• þú skoðar – you (sing.) look at
• hann / hún / það skoðar – he / she / it looks at
• við skoðum – we look at
• þið skoðið – you (pl.) look at
• þeir / þær / þau skoða – they look at

Because the subject is við (we), you must use the 1st person plural form skoðum.

Does skoðum mean we look at or we are looking at?