Questions & Answers about Við vitum ekki hvert strætóinn fer héðan.
Because hvert means to where / where to, while hvar means where in the sense of location.
Icelandic often makes a three-way distinction:
- hvar = where, at what place
- hvaðan = from where
- hvert = to where
In this sentence, the bus is going somewhere, so Icelandic uses hvert.
That is also why the sentence can contain both:
- hvert = where the bus is going to
- héðan = from here
So the structure is basically: We don’t know to where the bus goes from here.
Strætóinn means the bus.
The base word is strætó = bus.
The ending -inn is the suffixed definite article, so Icelandic usually says the bus by attaching the article to the noun instead of putting a separate word before it.
So:
- strætó = a bus / bus
- strætóinn = the bus
This is very common in Icelandic:
- bíll = car
- bíllinn = the car