Vi bliver hjemme hele aftenen.

That is a very common question. Blive often does mean become, but in some expressions it means remain or stay.

So:

• blive = become / remain / stay, depending on context
• blive hjemme = stay home

In this sentence, Vi bliver hjemme hele aftenen, bliver does not mean become. It means stay.

A useful comparison:

• Vi er hjemme = We are at home
• Vi bliver hjemme = We stay home / We are staying home

The second one emphasizes that we are not going out.

You can say Vi er hjemme hele aftenen, but it is slightly different.

• Vi er hjemme hele aftenen = We are at home all evening
• Vi bliver hjemme hele aftenen = We stay home all evening

The version with bliver suggests a choice or plan: we are remaining at home, rather than going somewhere else.

So if you want the idea of staying in, bliver hjemme is more natural.

This is about the difference between location and direction.

• hjem = homeward / home as a destination
• hjemme = at home

So:

• Vi går hjem = We go home
• Vi er hjemme = We are at home
• Vi bliver hjemme = We stay at home

A good rule:

• use hjem when there is movement toward home
• use hjemme when someone is at home or stays there

Bliver is present tense.

The infinitive is blive, and the present tense form is bliver.

So literally the structure is:

• Vi = we
• bliver = stay / are staying
• hjemme = at home
• hele aftenen = all evening / the whole evening

In Danish, the present tense is often used for:

• things happening now
• general facts
• plans for the near future

So this sentence can mean something like We’re staying home all evening.

Yes. Very often.

Danish uses the present tense for planned or expected future events, just like English sometimes does.

For example:

• Vi bliver hjemme i morgen = We’re staying home tomorrow
• Han kommer klokken otte = He’s coming at eight

So Vi bliver hjemme hele aftenen can easily mean a present plan about this evening.

Hele aftenen means the whole evening or all evening.

Breakdown:

• hele = whole / entire
• aftenen = the evening

Together they function as a time expression:

• hele aftenen = all evening

English often prefers all evening, while Danish commonly uses hele + definite noun.

Similar examples:

• hele dagen = all day
• hele natten = all night
• hele ugen = all week

Because Danish often uses the definite form after hele in expressions like this.

• aften = evening
• aftenen = the evening

So:

• hele aftenen = the whole evening / all evening

This is very common in Danish time expressions:

• hele dagen
• hele ugen
• hele året

English does not always use the in the same way, so this can feel strange at first.

Yes, this is standard Danish main-clause word order.

The sentence is:

• Vi = subject
• bliver = finite verb
• hjemme = adverbial/complement
• hele aftenen = time expression

In a normal Danish main clause, the finite verb usually comes in second position. That rule is often called V2.

So this sentence follows the expected pattern:

Subject + verb + other elements

If you move another element to the front, the verb still stays in second position:

• Hele aftenen bliver vi hjemme = All evening we’re staying home

Notice that bliver is still the second element.

Yes, it can.

The most neutral version is:

• Vi bliver hjemme hele aftenen

But you can also say:

• Hele aftenen bliver vi hjemme

That version gives more emphasis to the time phrase.

In everyday speech, the original version is usually the most natural unless you want to highlight all evening specifically.

Yes, that is a good idea.

At blive hjemme is a very common expression meaning:

• stay home
• stay at home
• stay in

It is useful to learn it as a unit, just like English learners often memorize stay home as a phrase.

Examples:

• Jeg bliver hjemme i dag = I’m staying home today
• Hun bliver hjemme fra arbejde = She’s staying home from work
• De bliver hjemme i weekenden = They’re staying home this weekend

A careful pronunciation would be roughly:

vi BLI-ver HJEM-me HE-le AF-te-nen

A few helpful notes:

• vi sounds like vee
• bliver is often pronounced something like BLEE-ver in careful speech, though natural speech may reduce it
• hjemme begins with hj-, which English speakers often find hard; the j gives a y-like sound
• aftenen may sound more compressed in natural speech than its spelling suggests

A rough English-style approximation could be:

vee BLEE-ver YEM-eh HEH-leh AF-teh-nen

That is only approximate, but it may help at first.

Usually no, not in this sentence.

The natural phrase is simply:

• hele aftenen

Adding i would normally sound wrong here.

So say:

• Vi bliver hjemme hele aftenen

not:

• Vi bliver hjemme i hele aftenen

Danish often uses bare time expressions without a preposition where English might use one more freely.

You would change bliver to the past tense blev:

• Vi blev hjemme hele aftenen = We stayed home all evening

So:

• blive = infinitive
• bliver = present
• blev = past

This is a useful pattern to remember because blive is a very common verb in Danish.