Learn French: Elle va au musée ce soir. - She is going to the museum tonight.

Aller (to go) is a highly irregular verb, meaning it doesn't follow the normal pattern. For elle (she), il (he), or on (one/we), the correct form is va. You just have to memorize it!

The translation says 'is going', but isn't va just the present tense for 'goes'?

In French, the present tense covers both the simple present (she goes) and the continuous present (she is going). There isn't a separate '-ing' tense like in English, so Elle va translates to both depending on the context.

Why do we use au before musée?

Au is a mandatory combination of the preposition à (to/at) and the masculine word for 'the', le. In French, you can never say à le; they always merge into au. Since musée is masculine, it takes le, resulting in au musée (to the museum).

Wait, I thought nouns ending in -ée were usually feminine. Why is it masculine here?