Ég var heppinn í dag.

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Breakdown of Ég var heppinn í dag.

• vera: to be
• í dag: today
• heppinn: lucky

Questions & Answers about Ég var heppinn í dag.

Why is it var and not er?

Because var is the past tense of vera (to be).

• ég er = I am
• ég var = I was

So in Ég var heppinn í dag, var shows that the sentence is talking about being lucky earlier today or at some point today, not necessarily right now.

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What form of vera is var?

Var is the 1st person singular past tense form used with ég (I), but it is also the same past-tense form for he/she/it.

Examples:

• ég var = I was
• hann var = he was
• hún var = she was
• það var = it was

So Icelandic does not always have a different past-tense form for every person.

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Why is it heppinn and not just the dictionary form heppinn/heppin/heppið?