Ég ætla að sjóða egg í morgun, þar sem við höfum lítinn tíma.

Ég ætla að + infinitive is a very common way to talk about intention or a near future action. Here, Ég ætla að sjóða egg means something like I’m going to boil egg/eggs or I intend to boil egg/eggs.

Icelandic does not have a separate future tense ending like English sometimes seems to. Instead, it often uses the present tense, or verbs like ætla and munu.

Here að is the infinitive marker, like English to in to boil.

So:

• ætla = intend / be going to
• að sjóða = to boil

After ætla, you normally use að + infinitive.
Compare:

• Ég ætla að fara = I’m going to go
• Ég ætla að borða = I’m going to eat

Not every Icelandic verb uses að before another verb, so this is something learners have to get used to verb by verb.

It can be either, because egg has the same form in the nominative and accusative singular and plural.

So sjóða egg can mean:

• boil an egg
• boil eggs

In this sentence, context may make plural more natural, but the form itself does not tell you.

If you want to be clear, you can say:

• eitt egg = one egg
• tvö egg = two eggs
• eggið = the egg
• eggin = the eggs

It is in the accusative, because it is the direct object of sjóða.

However, with this noun, the accusative form looks exactly the same as the nominative form: egg.

So the grammar says accusative, but the visible form does not change here.

Because the noun is indefinite here, just like English egg or eggs without the.

In Icelandic, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun rather than written as a separate word. For example:

• egg = egg / eggs
• eggið = the egg
• eggin = the eggs

So sjóða egg means boil egg/eggs, not boil the egg(s).

Usually í morgun means this morning, referring to the morning of the current day.

That is important, because:

• í morgun = this morning
• á morgun = tomorrow
• í fyrramálið = tomorrow morning

If you want to say something like in the mornings or in the morning as a general habit, Icelandic often uses a different expression, such as á morgnana.

Here þar sem means since or because.

Even though þar often means there, the expression þar sem is also used as a conjunction. In this sentence, it introduces the reason:

• Ég ætla að sjóða egg í morgun, þar sem við höfum lítinn tíma.
• I’m going to boil eggs this morning, since we have little time.

So here it is not about location. It is giving an explanation.

Because þar sem introduces a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses in Icelandic usually do not use the main-clause verb-second pattern.

So you get normal subject-verb order:

• við höfum lítinn tíma = we have little time
• þar sem við höfum lítinn tíma = since we have little time

This is a very common thing for English speakers to notice, because Icelandic main clauses and subordinate clauses often have different word order behavior.

Because tími is a masculine noun, and here it is the direct object of höfum, so it is in the accusative singular.

That changes both the adjective and the noun:

• dictionary form: lítill tími
• accusative singular: lítinn tíma

So:

• lítinn = accusative singular masculine of lítill
• tíma = accusative singular of tími

This is a normal adjective + noun agreement pattern in Icelandic.

In this sentence it means not much time.

So við höfum lítinn tíma means we have little time or we don’t have much time.

If you want to talk about duration in the sense of for a short time, Icelandic often prefers stuttan tíma:

• í stuttan tíma = for a short time

So:

• lítinn tíma = little time available
• stuttan tíma = short duration

Yes. Sjóða is the normal verb for boil.

So:

• sjóða egg = boil egg/eggs
• sjóða kartöflur = boil potatoes

If you want to say cook more generally, you might use elda, but for eggs specifically, sjóða is exactly the right verb if you mean boiling them in water.

For comparison:

• sjóða egg = boil eggs
• steikja egg = fry eggs

Yes. A very common alternative is af því að.

So you could also say:

• Ég ætla að sjóða egg í morgun af því að við höfum lítinn tíma.

Both are natural. Very roughly:

• af því að is a straightforward everyday because
• þar sem can sound a bit more like since / as, though it is also common in ordinary language

In both cases, the clause after the conjunction is subordinate, so the word order stays við höfum, not höfum við.