Questions & Answers about Ég geng beint heim eftir vinnu.
Why is the verb geng in this form, and what verb is it from?
Geng is the 1st person singular present tense of the verb að ganga (to walk / to go on foot).
So Ég geng literally means I walk (or I’m walking, depending on context).
Does að ganga always mean “to walk”, or can it mean “to go” in general?
In Icelandic, að ganga primarily means to walk (go on foot). It can also be used more broadly in certain contexts (like “things are going well”), but in a sentence with a destination like heim, it’s normally understood as walking.
Why is the word order Ég geng beint heim... and not something like Ég beint geng heim...?
What is beint here—an adjective or an adverb? Why doesn’t it change form?