Word
Í dag ætla ég að vinna í þessum turni.
Meaning
Today I am going to work in this tower.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Í dag ætla ég að vinna í þessum turni.
ég
I
að
to (infinitive marker)
í
in / into / to (before the hour, in telling time) / per (in frequency expressions)
í dag
today
Questions & Answers about Í dag ætla ég að vinna í þessum turni.
Why is "this" translated as þessum here instead of þessi?
The preposition í (in) forces the words following it into the dative case when describing a fixed location, like working inside a tower. Because turn (tower) is a masculine noun, the demonstrative pronoun þessi (this) changes to its dative masculine singular form, which is þessum.
Why does the word for tower end in an -i (turni)?
The base word is the masculine noun turn. Because it is in the dative case after the preposition í, it takes the common dative ending -i. Notice how the pronoun þessum and the noun turni work together as a dative masculine pair.
Why is the word order ætla ég (intend I) rather than ég ætla (I intend)?
Icelandic uses the verb-second rule, meaning the conjugated verb must usually be the second block of information in a sentence. Since the time phrase Í dag (Today) takes up the first position, the verb ætla has to come next, pushing the subject ég to the third spot.
Could I use mun instead of ætla for the future tense here?