Ég geng í átt að húsinu.

Ganga is the dictionary form, meaning to walk. In the sentence, the verb has to agree with ég (I), so it changes to the 1st person singular present tense:

• ég geng — I walk
• þú gengur — you walk
• hann/hún/það gengur — he/she/it walks

So Ég geng simply means I walk.

Yes, at least from an English learner’s point of view, it has some stem change, so it does not behave like the simplest regular verbs.

For example:

• infinitive: ganga
• present 1st singular: geng
• past 1st singular: gekk

So it is a verb you will want to memorize as a pattern rather than trying to build every form mechanically.

Í átt að is a common expression meaning toward, in the direction of, or towards.

You can think of it as a set phrase:

• í — in/into
• átt — direction
• að — toward/to

Together, they function very naturally as toward.

So in this sentence, í átt að húsinu means toward the house.

No. Here að is not the infinitive marker.

In Icelandic, að can have different jobs:

• before a verb: að ganga — to walk
• as a preposition: að húsinu — toward/to the house

In í átt að húsinu, the að is a preposition meaning something like toward or to.

Because að takes the dative case, and húsinu is the dative singular definite form of hús (the house).

Here is the basic pattern for hús:

• hús — a house
• húsið — the house
• húsinu — to/at the house, the house in dative contexts

Since the phrase is að húsinu, Icelandic requires the dative, so húsinu is the correct form.

In the phrase í átt að, átt is part of a fixed expression. Learners usually just memorize the whole phrase together.

More technically, í often takes:

• accusative when there is motion or direction
• dative when there is location

Because this expression involves direction, í átt að fits the directional use. The form átt itself does not visibly change here, so the safest beginner approach is simply:

• learn í átt að + dative

For example:

• í átt að húsinu — toward the house
• í átt að bílnum — toward the car

Yes, but the nuance is a little different.

• Ég geng í átt að húsinu = I am walking toward/in the direction of the house.
• Ég geng að húsinu = I walk to/up to the house.

So í átt að emphasizes direction, while að by itself can sound a bit more like you are actually approaching or going up to the destination.

You often could, depending on what you want to say.

• ég geng specifically means I walk
• ég fer means I go

So:

• Ég geng í átt að húsinu = I walk toward the house.
• Ég fer í átt að húsinu = I go toward the house.

The first one emphasizes that you are moving on foot.

Usually, yes. Icelandic normally keeps the subject pronoun unless there is a clear reason to omit it, such as in very informal contexts, diaries, or special styles.

So Ég geng is the normal full way to say I walk.

Unlike in some languages, Icelandic does not regularly drop subject pronouns just because the verb ending already shows the person.

Hús is a neuter noun. The ending -inu is the dative singular definite ending here.

A useful mini-paradigm is:

• hús — house
• húsið — the house
• húsi — to/at a house
• húsinu — to/at the house

So in að húsinu, the noun is both:

• definite — the house
• dative
• singular

The word order is very straightforward:

• Ég — subject
• geng — verb
• í átt að húsinu — prepositional phrase showing direction

So the pattern is basically:

Subject + Verb + Direction phrase

This is one of the most common and neutral word orders in Icelandic.

A rough learner-friendly guide would be:

Ég geng í átt að húsinu
yeg geng ee auth ath hoo-si-nu

A few notes:

• Ég sounds roughly like yeg
• geng has a hard g
• í is like ee
• átt has an au-type vowel sound
• að is often pronounced with a soft th sound, like this
• húsinu is roughly HOO-si-nu

Exact Icelandic pronunciation is more subtle than English spelling can show, but this approximation is a useful start.

Yes, definitely. That is probably the most helpful way to learn it.

Instead of thinking through each word every time, it is better to store:

• í átt að + dative = toward / in the direction of

That makes it easier to produce sentences like:

• Ég geng í átt að skólanum — I walk toward the school.
• Hún hleypur í átt að bílnum — She runs toward the car.
• Við förum í átt að miðbænum — We go toward downtown.