No. 536 in Icelandic
horfa
"Horfa" means "to look" or "to watch" in English.
In a sentence
Ég horfi á sjónvarpið á kvöldin.
I watch TV in the evenings.
In this sentence, 'horfa' means 'to watch' and is used to describe the action of watching television.
Við skulum horfa fram á veginn og hugsa um framtíðina.
Let us look ahead and think about the future.
Here, 'horfa' is figuratively used to mean 'to look ahead' in terms of planning or focusing on the future.
Krakkarnir horfðu á boltann fljúga í loftinu.
The kids watched the ball fly in the air.
In this context, 'horfa' conveys the act of attentively observing something in motion.
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