Ég ætla að ryksuga gólfið og gólfteppið í stofunni eftir vinnu.

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Breakdown of Ég ætla að ryksuga gólfið og gólfteppið í stofunni eftir vinnu.

• vinnan: the work
• ætla: to plan
• í: in

Questions & Answers about Ég ætla að ryksuga gólfið og gólfteppið í stofunni eftir vinnu.

What does ætla að mean here, and why is it used instead of something like “will”?

Ég ætla að + infinitive is a very common way to express an intention/plan: “I’m going to … / I intend to …”.
It often implies you’ve decided to do it.

If you used mun (e.g. Ég mun ryksuga…), that’s more like a neutral “I will …” (future), and it can sound more formal or definite. In everyday speech, ætla að is extremely common for planned actions.

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Why is there an að before ryksuga?

In Icelandic, many verbs that take another verb after them use að as an infinitive marker, similar to English “to” in “to vacuum”.
So ætla að ryksuga = “plan/intend to vacuum”.

(English sometimes drops “to” in certain structures, but Icelandic typically keeps að here.)

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Is ryksuga one word? What does it literally mean?

Yes, ryksuga is one verb meaning to vacuum (clean). It’s historically a compound of:

• ryk = “dust”
• suga = “to suck”

So it’s basically “dust-suck,” i.e. “vacuum.”

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