Questions & Answers about Við erum í stofunni núna.
Here við means we.
A common beginner confusion is that við can also be a preposition meaning things like with, by, or at, depending on context. In this sentence, though, it is clearly the subject pronoun we, because it comes before the verb erum.
So:
- við erum = we are
Context tells you which við you are dealing with.
Erum is the 1st person plural present form of the verb vera, which means to be.
Since the subject is við = we, Icelandic uses the matching verb form:
- ég er = I am
- þú ert = you are
- hann/hún/það er = he/she/it is
- við erum = we are
- þið eruð = you are
- þeir/þær/þau eru = they are
So Við erum literally means We are.