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Nous devons nous lever tôt demain matin.

Nous devons nous lever tôt demain matin.
We have to get up early tomorrow morning.
From Lesson 59:Reflexive pronouns (me, te, se, nous, vous)·French

Questions & Answers about Nous devons nous lever tôt demain matin.

Why does this sentence have nous twice?
The first nous is the subject, meaning "we". The second nous is a reflexive pronoun. The verb for "to get up" is se lever (literally "to raise oneself"). When the subject is "we", the reflexive pronoun changes to match it, becoming nous lever.
Why is the second nous placed in front of lever instead of devons?
In French, reflexive pronouns go immediately before the verb they belong to. Here, the pronoun belongs to the action of getting up (lever), not the action of having to do something (devons).
Why isn't lever conjugated here?
Because it directly follows the conjugated verb devons (we must / we have to). When you have a conjugated verb followed by another action, the second verb stays in its infinitive (dictionary) form.
Why is it just demain matin without a word for "the"?
To say "tomorrow morning" or "tomorrow evening" in French, you simply put the words side by side: demain matin or demain soir. You do not need to add a word like le (the).

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