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Après-demain, nous organisons une réunion.

Après-demain, nous organisons une réunion.
The day after tomorrow, we are organizing a meeting.
From Lesson 41:Question words for time (quand, à quelle heure)·French

Breakdown of Après-demain, nous organisons une réunion.

organiser
to organize
la réunion
the meeting
après-demain
the day after tomorrow

Questions & Answers about Après-demain, nous organisons une réunion.

If I wanted to ask when this meeting is happening, would I use quand or à quelle heure?
You would use quand (when) because après-demain (the day after tomorrow) tells us the day, not the time. You only use à quelle heure (at what time) when you are asking for a specific time on the clock, like 2:00 PM.
Is après-demain literally just "after tomorrow"?
Yes! Après means "after" and demain means "tomorrow". In French, you hyphenate them to create a single compound word meaning "the day after tomorrow". (If you wanted to say "the day before yesterday", you would use avant-hier).
The translation says "we are organizing" for a future event. Why doesn't the French sentence use a future tense?
In French, just like in English, you can often use the present tense (nous organisons) to talk about a firmly scheduled or planned event in the future. Because the sentence starts with a time word (après-demain), the future context is already perfectly clear.
Does une réunion mean a family reunion?
Usually not! Even though it looks exactly like the English word "reunion", une réunion is a "false friend". It is the standard French word for a professional or organizational "meeting". For a family reunion, you would more likely say une fête de famille.

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