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Að vera To be

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Að vera means “to be.” In the present tense it has just five forms — er, ert, erum, eruð, eru — and the one you need depends on who or what the sentence is about. Read the chart, practise it, then use it in real sentences.

  • 5forms
  • 11pronouns
  • 100chart drills
  • 100sentences

The five forms

The chart

How to read it

  • There are 11 pronoun rows but only five different verb forms.
  • Icelandic separates þú (you, one person) from þið (you, more than one person).
  • Hán refers to one person and takes er, even though English translates it as “they are.”
  • Þau, þær and þeir all take eru.
  • Pronouns can stand for things, following the noun's grammatical gender — hann and hún are not only for people.

Choosing the form

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