Questions & Answers about Ég þarf að fara heim strax.
Why is it Ég þarf and not Ég þarfur or something that agrees with ég?
Icelandic verbs don’t change for gender, and they don’t add an adjective-like ending to “agree” with the subject. They conjugate by person and number.
þurfa (to need) in the present tense is:
- ég þarf (I need)
- þú þarft (you need)
- hann/hún/það þarf (he/she/it needs)
- við þurfum, þið þurfið, þeir/þær/þau þurfa
What exactly is að doing here?
að is the infinitive marker, like English to in to go.
So þarf að fara is literally need to go. Many verbs that take another verb in Icelandic use að + infinitive.
Why does it say að fara heim instead of something like að fara til heim?
heim is an adverb meaning (to) home / homeward, and it often works without a preposition. It’s similar to English “go home” (not “go to home”).
If you want the idea of “to my home/house” more explicitly, you might say things like fara heim til mín (go home to my place) or fara heim í húsið depending on context, but the basic, natural phrasing is fara heim.