Questions & Answers about Ég hef alltaf ferðast erlendis.
Why is alltaf placed between hef and ferðast?
In the present perfect tense, common adverbs like alltaf (always), aldrei (never), and ekki (not) usually go right after the helping verb (hef) and before the main action verb (ferðast).
If I wanted to say "I have not always traveled abroad," where would ekki go?
It would go right after the helping verb and before the other adverb: Ég hef ekki alltaf ferðast erlendis. When you have both ekki and an adverb like alltaf in the present perfect, ekki typically comes first so it can negate the word right after it.
ferðast usually means "to travel." Is it in the infinitive form here?
It looks like the infinitive, but it is actually the past participle (traveled)! Because ferðast is a middle voice verb (verbs that end in -st), its past participle often looks exactly the same as its infinitive. You can tell it is the past participle here because it directly follows the helping verb hef.
Why does the word for "abroad" (erlendis) end with an -s?