Breakdown of Ég ætla að heimsækja ömmu í ágúst eða september.
ég
I
að
to (infinitive marker)
í
in / into / to (before the hour, in telling time) / per (in frequency expressions)
heimsækja
to visit
ætla
to intend
amman
the grandmother
eða
or
ágúst
August
september
September
Questions & Answers about Ég ætla að heimsækja ömmu í ágúst eða september.
Why aren't the months ágúst and september capitalized in this sentence?
Unlike in English, Icelandic months and days of the week are always written with lowercase letters, unless they happen to be the very first word of a sentence.
We use the preposition í for "in August". Does í change the case of the months?
Yes, when talking about a point in time (like a specific month), the preposition í takes the accusative case. Luckily, the masculine words for months like ágúst and september don't change their spellings in the accusative, so they look exactly the same as their standard dictionary forms.
Why is the word for grandma written as ömmu instead of amma?
The verb heimsækja (to visit) requires the person or place you are visiting to be in the accusative case. Because amma is a weak feminine noun, its ending changes from "a" to "u" in the accusative, making it ömmu.
Is ætla að the standard way to talk about the future in Icelandic?
Yes! Icelandic doesn't have a distinct future tense word that perfectly matches the English "will". To talk about future plans or intentions, you usually use ætla (to intend/plan) followed by að and an infinitive verb, which in this sentence is heimsækja (to visit).
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