Breakdown of Við förum yfir skjalið saman á morgun.
við
we
saman
together
á morgun
tomorrow
skjalið
the document
Questions & Answers about Við förum yfir skjalið saman á morgun.
What does förum yfir mean here? Does it literally mean go over?
Yes. Að fara yfir is a very common Icelandic expression meaning to go over, to review, or to examine together.
So in this sentence, förum yfir skjalið means something like go over the document rather than physically moving over it.
A useful thing to remember is that yfir by itself often means over, but here it is part of the expression fara yfir.
Why is förum in the present tense if the sentence is about tomorrow?
Icelandic often uses the present tense for near-future actions when the time is made clear by context.
So:
- Við förum ... á morgun = We are going / will go ... tomorrow
This works much like English in sentences such as We’re meeting tomorrow.
Icelandic does have ways to talk about the future, but in everyday speech the present tense is extremely common when a time expression like á morgun already shows that the action is in the future.
Why is it förum and not something like ferum?