Hádegið — noon, lunch and the daily bath

The three meals

You already know two of them. The middle one completes the set:

mealwhen
morgunmaturinn breakfastá morgnana
hádegismaturinn lunchí hádeginu
kvöldmaturinn dinnerá kvöldin

hádegið is noon, midday — the middle of the day, around twelve. To say at midday put it in the dative after í: í hádeginu.

At midday I eat bread.
Í hádeginu borða ég brauð.

Morning as a thing, not a time

morgunninn is the morning as a noun — the thing itself — while á morgnana is the habit, in the mornings.

The morning starts early.
Morgunninn byrjar snemma.

Bath, swimming, sport

baðið the bath, sundið swimming, íþróttin the sport. Icelanders swim year-round, and fara í sundto go swimming — is a fixed phrase: you go into swimming, not into a pool.

We go swimming after school.
Við förum í sund eftir skóla.

sofna is to fall asleep — the moment, not the state. Compare sofa, to sleep.

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