Nous allons au village voisin après le déjeuner.

Allons is the nous form of the verb aller (to go) in the present tense.

• je vais
• tu vas
• il/elle va
• nous allons
• vous allez
• ils/elles vont

Because the subject is nous (we), French uses allons.

Because à + le contracts to au in French.

So:

• à + le village → au village

This contraction is required. You would not normally say à le village.

Related forms:

• à + les → aux
• de + le → du
• de + les → des

In French, many adjectives come after the noun, and voisin is one of them in this kind of meaning.

So:

• un village voisin = a neighboring village
• le village voisin = the neighboring village

English often puts adjectives before the noun, but French often places them after. Some adjectives can go before the noun, but voisin usually comes after when it means nearby/neighboring.

Here voisin means neighboring, nearby, or next-door in a geographic sense.

So le village voisin suggests:

• the village close to this one
• the neighboring village

It does not mean that the village is a neighbor in a personal sense. It is describing location.

French often uses an article with meals:

• avant le dîner
• après le déjeuner
• pendant le petit-déjeuner

So après le déjeuner is the normal way to say after lunch.

Using le here sounds natural because French commonly treats meals as named events or occasions that take an article.

Usually, in standard modern French from France, déjeuner means lunch.

Common meal words in France are:

• le petit-déjeuner = breakfast
• le déjeuner = lunch
• le dîner = dinner

But be aware: in some French-speaking regions, meal names differ. For example, in parts of Belgium or Switzerland, déjeuner can refer to breakfast. For most learners studying standard French from France, though, le déjeuner = lunch.

Grammatically, it is in the present tense because allons is present.

But in meaning, it can refer to a future plan, just like English We are going to the neighboring village after lunch.

French often uses the present tense for scheduled or planned future actions when the time is clear from context. Here après le déjeuner helps make the timing clear.

Yes. In everyday spoken French, on va is very common instead of nous allons.

• Nous allons... = more formal or careful
• On va... = more natural in casual speech

Both are correct. A learner should understand both, but on va is especially common in conversation.

Not if you want a normal statement meaning We are going...

French usually requires the subject pronoun, so nous must stay in a regular sentence:

• Nous allons...

If you say Allons... by itself, it sounds like the nous imperative:

• Allons au village voisin après le déjeuner = Let’s go to the neighboring village after lunch

So dropping nous changes the sentence type.

A careful approximate pronunciation is:

noo zah-lon oh vee-lahzh vwah-zan ah-pray luh day-zhuh-nay

A few useful points:

• Nous allons has a liaison: the s in nous is pronounced like z before allons.
• au sounds like oh.
• The ending -oin in voisin sounds roughly like waz-an (with a nasal vowel at the end).
• déjeuner has the soft j sound, like the s in measure.

If you want to sound more natural, focus especially on the liaison in nous allons.

Because aller à is the normal pattern for going to a place:

• aller au village
• aller à Paris
• aller à la plage

Using dans would emphasize being inside the place rather than simply going there.

So:

• aller au village voisin = go to the neighboring village
• aller dans le village voisin = go into the neighboring village

In this sentence, au is the natural choice.