Questions & Answers about Ég ætla að senda bréf til frænku minnar á morgun.
Ætla að + infinitive is a very common way to talk about an intention or near-future action in Icelandic.
- ég ætla að senda = I am going to send / I intend to send
- ég sendi usually means I send or I sent, depending on context
So ætla að is doing the job of expressing a planned future action.
Here að is the infinitive marker, like to in English.
- senda = send
- að senda = to send
After ætla, Icelandic normally uses að + infinitive:
- ég ætla að fara = I’m going to go
- ég ætla að lesa = I’m going to read
So in this sentence, að links ætla to the verb senda.
Because bréf is a neuter noun whose nominative and accusative singular forms are the same.