Learn Icelandic: Ég fer inn á baðherbergið til að snyrta mig. - I am going into the bathroom to freshen up.

In Icelandic, there is no separate reflexive pronoun (like "myself" or "yourself") for the first and second person. You simply use the normal object pronoun, which is mig (me) in the accusative case, to show that the action reflects back to you. Third-person sentences, however, do use a special reflexive word (sig).

Does snyrta mig literally mean "freshen up"?

The verb snyrta means "to groom," "to tidy," or "to trim." So literally, snyrta mig means "groom myself" or "tidy myself up," which is the most natural way to say "freshen up" in Icelandic.

Why use inn á instead of just í (in) or inn í (into)?

In Icelandic, certain rooms and places take the preposition á (on/at) rather than í (in). The bathroom (baðherbergi) is a classic example! The word inn is added to show the physical motion of going inside from the outside, so inn á translates smoothly to "into" here.

Why is the word for "the bathroom" baðherbergið here instead of the dative form baðherberginu?