Questions & Answers about Ik ga morgen naar het station.
• Ik – personal pronoun (I)
• ga – verb, first-person singular of gaan (to go)
• morgen – adverb of time (tomorrow)
• naar – preposition indicating direction (to)
• het – definite article for neuter nouns (the)
• station – neuter noun (station)
In Dutch there is no separate “present continuous” form. The simple present (tegenwoordige tijd) covers both present and near-future events when you add a time adverb like morgen. If you wanted to stress the future more, you could use the auxiliary zal:
• Ik zal morgen naar het station gaan.
But the simple present is perfectly normal: Ik ga morgen…
Dutch word-order for main clauses is roughly: Subject – finite verb – adverbials – rest of sentence. Adverbs of time (like morgen) typically come after the verb and before place expressions.
You can also front the time adverb for emphasis:
• Morgen ga ik naar het station.
Putting morgen at the very end (Ik ga naar het station morgen) is grammatically possible but sounds less natural.
• naar expresses movement toward a destination: “to the station.”
• in (in) or op (on/at) describe location, not direction, so you’d say:
– Ik ben in het station. (I am in the station.)
– Ik sta op het perron. (I stand on the platform.)
If you want to stress the “towards” idea, you can even say:
• Ik ga morgen naar het station naartoe.
Yes, but they’re not interchangeable:
• gaan is a general verb “to go,” without specifying how. You could go by foot, bike, car, etc.
• lopen specifically means “to walk.”
So if you want to say “I’m walking to the station,” you’d use lopen:
• Ik loop morgen naar het station.
Otherwise stick with gaan for generic “going.”