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This is the very common Icelandic pattern eiga eftir að + infinitive.
It does not mean literal ownership here. It means something like:
- to still have left to do
- to still need to do
- to have yet to do
So Ég á líka eftir að sópa svalirnar... means roughly I also still have to sweep the balcony/balcony area...
The word líka adds also / too.
Grammatically, á is the present-tense form of eiga, which often does mean own or have.
But in this sentence, á is part of the idiom eiga eftir að. In that idiom, it does not mean literal possession.
So:
- Ég á bíl = I own/have a car
- Ég á eftir að fara = I still have to go / I have yet to go
Same verb, different meaning because of the full expression.