Ég verð fegin þegar ég er komin heim og þessi vika er búin.

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Breakdown of Ég verð fegin þegar ég er komin heim og þessi vika er búin.

• vera: to be
• þessi: this
• þegar: when

Questions & Answers about Ég verð fegin þegar ég er komin heim og þessi vika er búin.

Why is it fegin and not feginn?

Because fegin is the feminine singular form.

The sentence tells you that the speaker is female:

• Ég verð fegin = I will be glad / relieved, said by a woman
• A man would say Ég verð feginn

This kind of agreement is very common in Icelandic. Adjectives and participle-like forms often agree with the person or noun they describe in gender, number, and case.

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What does verð mean here?

Verð is the 1st person singular present of verða, which often means become.

So:

• Ég verð fegin literally means I become glad
• In natural English, that is usually I’ll be glad or I’ll be relieved

Even though the verb is formally present tense, this sentence has a future meaning because it is talking about how the speaker will feel once certain things have happened.

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Why does þegar mean when here? I thought þegar could mean already.