Breakdown of Ég er farinn að trúa því að þessi tölvugerði heimur sé raunverulegur.
vera
to be
ég
I
það
it / there (existential) / the one (n)
fara
to go
trúa
to believe
þessi
this (m/f)
að
that (conjunction)
heimurinn
the world
raunverulegur
real
tölvugerður
computer-generated
Questions & Answers about Ég er farinn að trúa því að þessi tölvugerði heimur sé raunverulegur.
Why is the verb sé in the subjunctive here instead of the indicative er?
The verb trúa (to believe) triggers the subjunctive in the following að (that) clause. In Icelandic, verbs of thinking, believing, or doubting express a subjective viewpoint rather than an objective fact, which requires the subjunctive mood.
Why do we need the word því before að? Couldn't we just say trúa að?
How does the phrase er farinn að translate to 'starting to'?
Literally meaning 'am gone to', vera farinn að is a very common idiom used to show that an action has started or is underway. Keep in mind that farinn acts like an adjective here and must agree with the speaker in gender and number. If the speaker were female, she would say Ég er farin að.
Why does the adjective tölvugerði end in an -i rather than the standard masculine ending -ur?
Because it directly follows the demonstrative pronoun þessi (this), the adjective must use its weak declension. For a masculine singular nominative noun like heimur, the weak adjective ending is -i, changing tölvugerður to tölvugerði.
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