Ég giska á að hún komi seint.

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Breakdown of Ég giska á að hún komi seint.

• hún: she
• seint: late
• að: that

Questions & Answers about Ég giska á að hún komi seint.

What does giska á mean here?

Giska á means to guess, to estimate, or to make a prediction about.

In this sentence, Ég giska á að... is basically I guess that... or My guess is that...

A useful thing to remember is that giska normally appears with á in this meaning, so you learn it best as a unit: giska á.

Why are both á and að used? They seem to come right next to each other.

They do different jobs:

• á belongs to the expression giska á
• að introduces the subordinate clause, meaning that

So the structure is:

Ég giska á + að hún komi seint

In other words:

• giska á = guess
• að hún komi seint = that she will/is likely to come late

This is not the infinitive marker að. Here it is a conjunction meaning that, because it is followed by a finite verb: komi.

Why is it komi and not kemur?