No. 31 in Icelandic
koma
"Come" or "arrival."
In a sentence
Ég kem á hverjum degi í vinnuna.
I come to work every day.
Here, 'koma' is used in the 1st person singular present tense 'kem' to mean 'to come' or 'to arrive'.
Þeir komu til Íslands í dag.
They came to Iceland today.
In this sentence, 'koma' is conjugated in the past tense 'komu', indicating an action of 'coming' that happened in the past.
Við höfum komið saman til að ræða verkefnið.
We have come together to discuss the project.
Here, 'koma' appears in its past participle form 'komið' as part of a compound verb, showing a completed action of 'coming together'.
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