No. 520 in Icelandic

vita

"Vita" in Icelandic means "to know."

In a sentence

Ég veit svarið.
I know the answer.
The word 'vita' is used here as a verb meaning 'to know', expressing knowledge about something specific.
Hún vill vita hvað gerðist.
She wants to know what happened.
Here, 'vita' serves as an infinitive verb meaning 'to know', specifying the desire to gain information.
Við vitum ekki hvort hann kemur.
We do not know if he is coming.
In this sentence, 'vita' is conjugated as 'vitum', indicating the plural first-person form to express lack of knowledge.

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