Questions & Answers about Ég hef verið að uppfæra ferilskrána mína síðan í morgun.
Hef verið að + infinitive is a very common way to express an action that started in the past and has been continuing over a period of time.
So Ég hef verið að uppfæra... síðan í morgun means something like:
- I have been updating... since this morning
Comparison:
- Ég uppfæri = I update / I am updating (less natural here)
- Ég er að uppfæra = I am updating (happening right now, but does not by itself show duration from the past)
- Ég hef verið að uppfæra = I have been updating / I’ve been working on updating (started earlier and continued)
This structure is one of the most natural ways in Icelandic to express the English present perfect continuous.
Here að introduces the infinitive verb uppfæra.
In this pattern:
- vera að + infinitive = to be doing something
- hafa verið að + infinitive = to have been doing something
So:
- vera að uppfæra = be updating
- hafa verið að uppfæra = have been updating
This að is not the same as the English infinitive marker to in every situation, but in structures like this it often appears before the infinitive.