Word
Í öðru lagi höfum við engan tíma.
Meaning
Secondly, we have no time.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Í öðru lagi höfum við engan tíma.
við
we
tíminn
the time / the class (m) / the hour
hafa
to have
enginn
no one / nobody / no (m/f)
Questions & Answers about Í öðru lagi höfum við engan tíma.
Why does Í öðru lagi mean "Secondly" and what does lagi actually mean?
Why is the verb before the subject here (höfum við instead of við höfum)?
Icelandic strictly follows the V2 (verb-second) rule. Because the sentence starts with the adverbial phrase Í öðru lagi, the verb höfum must immediately follow it to stay in the second position of the sentence. This pushes the subject við right after the verb.
Why is the word for "no" written as engan instead of the dictionary form enginn?
The word enginn (no, none) is a pronoun that must agree in gender, number, and case with the noun it describes. Because the noun it describes (tíma) is masculine and in the accusative case, enginn must change to its masculine accusative singular form, which is engan.
Is tíma plural here? I thought the word for time was tími.