Hún fer á litla ráðstefnu í háskólanum í dag.

She is going to a small conference at the university today.

Breakdown of Hún fer á litla ráðstefnu í háskólanum í dag.

• lítill: small
• hún: she
• fara: to go
• í: at

Questions & Answers about Hún fer á litla ráðstefnu í háskólanum í dag.

Why is it Hún fer and not Hún fara or something else? What tense is fer here?

The verb is að fara (to go, to leave). It is irregular in the present tense:

• ég fer – I go
• þú ferð – you (sg.) 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 fer is the 3rd person singular present tense form, matching Hún (she).

In this sentence, the Icelandic present tense fer is used with the time expression í dag (today), and that naturally gives a near‑future meaning in English: she is going / she will go today. Icelandic does not need a separate future tense here; the simple present with a time word is enough.

Why is the preposition á used before litla ráðstefnu? Could you use í or til instead?