Við förum út á svalirnar í kvöld.

Because Icelandic often uses svalir as a plural noun for what English treats as a singular balcony.

So:

• svalir = balcony / balconies
• svalirnar = the balcony / the balconies

Even though the form is plural in Icelandic, it is very often translated naturally as singular in English.

This is a very common Icelandic pattern.

With á, the case changes depending on whether there is:

• movement toward a place → accusative
• location in a place → dative

Here, Við förum út á svalirnar means we go out onto the balcony, so there is movement toward the balcony. That is why Icelandic uses the accusative form svalirnar.

Compare:

• Við förum út á svalirnar. = We go out onto the balcony.
• Við erum úti á svölunum. = We are outside on the balcony.

So:

• á svalirnar = onto the balcony
• á svölunum = on the balcony

Yes, förum á svalirnar would already mean we go onto the balcony.

But út adds the idea of going out, usually from inside to outside. So:

• Við förum á svalirnar = We go onto the balcony.
• Við förum út á svalirnar = We go out onto the balcony.

In this sentence, út makes the movement feel more natural and specific.

Yes, förum is present tense, from the verb fara = to go.

But Icelandic, like English, often uses the present tense for the near future, especially when there is a time expression such as í kvöld.

So:

• Við förum í kvöld. = We’re going tonight.
• Við förum út á svalirnar í kvöld. = We’re going out onto the balcony tonight.

This is completely normal Icelandic.

The verb is fara = to go.

Förum is the 1st person plural present tense, meaning we go or we are going.

Some present-tense forms are:

• ég fer = I go
• þú ferð = you go
• hann/hún/það fer = he/she/it goes
• við förum = we go
• þið farið = you all go
• þeir/þær/þau fara = they go

So við förum = we go / we’re going.

In ordinary Icelandic, the subject pronoun is usually kept, so við is natural here.

• Við förum = We go / We’re going

Icelandic verbs do change by person and number, but not enough for the subject pronoun to be dropped regularly the way it can be in some other languages.

So Við förum út á svalirnar í kvöld is the normal full sentence.

í kvöld means tonight.

Literally, í often means in, but in time expressions it frequently translates more naturally in English as tonight, today, this evening, and so on.

Examples:

• í dag = today
• í kvöld = tonight
• í nótt = tonight / in the night

There is no article because Icelandic simply does not need one in this expression. You just learn í kvöld as the normal fixed phrase.

The basic order is:

• Við = subject
• förum = verb
• út á svalirnar = direction/place
• í kvöld = time

So the sentence is built like:

We go out onto the balcony tonight.

This is a very natural neutral order in Icelandic.

Icelandic word order is somewhat flexible, especially for emphasis. For example, you could move í kvöld earlier if you wanted to stress tonight. But the version given is straightforward and idiomatic.

A rough learner-friendly guide might be:

vith FUR-um oot ow SVA-lihr-nar ee kvvolt

A few important points:

• ð in Við is like the th in this
• ö in förum is somewhat like the vowel in bird, but not exactly
• ú is a long oo
• á is like ow in now, but longer
• kv in kvöld is pronounced clearly, with both sounds

You do not need perfect English-style approximations, but those are useful starting points.

Because Icelandic usually treats a balcony as a surface or platform you go onto, not as an enclosed space you go into.

So the natural preposition is á:

• á svalirnar = onto the balcony
• á svölunum = on the balcony

Using í would sound wrong here in standard Icelandic.

Yes. It is worth memorizing because it behaves a little differently from what an English speaker expects.

Useful forms to know are:

• svalir = balcony / balconies
• svalirnar = the balcony
• á svalirnar = onto the balcony
• á svölunum = on the balcony

So yes: treat svalir as a very useful vocabulary item with a somewhat unusual plural form and case pattern.

Yes. Depending on context, it can be translated as:

• We’re going out onto the balcony tonight
• We go out onto the balcony tonight
• We will go out onto the balcony tonight

Because Icelandic often uses the present tense for planned future actions, English may use either present progressive or will when translating it. The exact English choice depends on context and style.