Questions & Answers about Við verðum að hlusta á báðar hliðarnar.
Verðum is the 1st person plural present tense form of verða.
So:
- ég verð = I become / I must
- við verðum = we become / we must
In this sentence, við verðum means we must because it is part of the construction verða að + infinitive.
Yes, on its own, verða often means to become.
But Icelandic also has the very common pattern:
- verða að + infinitive
This means must, have to, or need to.
So:
- Við verðum að hlusta = We must listen
- literally, you can think of it as something like We become obliged to listen, but in normal English it is simply We must listen.
This is a very important structure to learn.