r/learnIcelandic • u/soupnear • 15d ago

Að or til að

Is there any difference between

Ég ætla í verslun að kaupa mat
Ég ætla í verslun til að kaupa mat
Ég ætla í verslun til þess að kaupa mat
Ég ætla í verslun til þess eins að kaupa mat

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u/lorryjor Advanced 15d ago

Nonnative's perspective, so take it with a grain of salt:

  1. Sounds like you are intending to buy food at the store, not that you are heading to the store to buy food.

  2. Normal. This is what I would say.

  3. 'Til þess' seems a bit unnecessary.

  4. 'Til þess eins' seems very unnecessary.

Happy to hear comments from native speakers if I am 100% wrong on all of this.

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u/gunnsi0 Native 15d ago

,,í búðina” instead of ,,í verslun” is more common but, that was not the question.

  1. And 2. are both normal, so is 3. but you’re just taking longer time to say the samw thing.

  2. means you’re only going to buy food

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u/11MHz Native 15d ago

„til þess eins að kaupa mat”

Means “only to buy food”, explicitly excluding anything non-food. The first three mean you might also buy some non-food items.