Word
Við búum í bænum.
Meaning
We live in the town.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Við búum í bænum.
How is the sentence built up grammatically?
It has a very straightforward structure:
- Við = we
- búum = live / reside
- í bænum = in the town
So the pattern is:
subject + verb + prepositional phrase
That is a very common Icelandic sentence pattern.
Why is the verb búum and not búa?
Because búum is the 1st person plural present tense form of the verb að búa.
The dictionary form is að búa = to live, to reside.
Present tense forms are:
- ég bý = I live
- þú býrð = you live
- hann/hún/það býr = he/she/it lives
- við búum = we live
- þið búið = you (plural) live
- þeir/þær/þau búa = they live
So because the subject is við (we), the verb has to be búum.
What case is við in?