Wir verbringen den Abend zu Hause.

Here verbringen means to spend in the sense of spending time.

So Wir verbringen den Abend zu Hause means We are spending the evening at home.

A few common examples:

• den Tag verbringen = spend the day
• die Nacht verbringen = spend the night
• den Urlaub verbringen = spend the vacation

It does not mean spending money.

Because Abend is the direct object of the verb verbringen.

The verb verbringen takes something that you spend:

• spend the evening
• spend the day
• spend the weekend

In German, the direct object usually goes in the accusative case.
Abend is a masculine noun, so:

• nominative: der Abend
• accusative: den Abend

That is why the sentence has den Abend.

Because wir is the form that matches the verb verbringen here.

The basic structure is:

• Wir = subject = we
• verbringen = verb = spend
• den Abend = direct object
• zu Hause = location

So the sentence is built like: We spend the evening at home.

In a normal German main clause, the finite verb goes in position 2.

Here the sentence begins with the subject:

• Wir = position 1
• verbringen = position 2

So this is standard German word order.

You could also move another part to the front, but the verb would still stay second:

• Den Abend verbringen wir zu Hause.
• Zu Hause verbringen wir den Abend.

No. Verbringen is not separable.

So you say:

• Wir verbringen den Abend zu Hause.

Not:

• Wir bringen den Abend zu Hause ver. ❌

This matters because many German verbs with prefixes are separable, but ver- verbs are usually inseparable.

Zu Hause means at home.

It is a fixed expression used when you are talking about your location:

• Ich bin zu Hause. = I am at home.
• Wir bleiben zu Hause. = We are staying at home.
• Wir verbringen den Abend zu Hause. = We are spending the evening at home.

So here it tells you where the evening is being spent.

This is a very common question.

• zu Hause = at home → location
• nach Hause = home / to home → direction, movement toward home

Compare:

• Wir sind zu Hause. = We are at home.
• Wir gehen nach Hause. = We are going home.

In your sentence there is no movement, only location, so zu Hause is correct.

Yes. In modern German, both zu Hause and zuhause are commonly seen.

Very roughly:

• zu Hause is often treated as the more traditional spelling
• zuhause is also accepted and very common, especially in less formal writing

So these are both possible:

• Wir verbringen den Abend zu Hause.
• Wir verbringen den Abend zuhause.

Learners should recognize both.

Because Haus is a noun, and German nouns are capitalized.

In the fixed expression zu Hause, the word appears in the form Hause, which is part of an older dative construction. Even though it functions like an adverbial expression now, it still keeps the noun capitalization.

So:

• zu Hause ✅
• zu hause ❌

It is a regular verb in the present tense:

• ich verbringe
• du verbringst
• er/sie/es verbringt
• wir verbringen
• ihr verbringt
• sie/Sie verbringen

So wir verbringen is the correct form for we spend.

Not in the same structure.

• den Abend verbringen = spend the evening
• am Abend = in the evening / during the evening

So these are different patterns:

• Wir verbringen den Abend zu Hause. = We are spending the evening at home.
• Wir sind am Abend zu Hause. = We are at home in the evening.

In your sentence, den Abend is the object of verbringen, so am Abend would not be a direct replacement.

Yes, German word order is flexible, as long as the finite verb stays in second position in a main clause.

All of these are possible:

• Wir verbringen den Abend zu Hause.
• Den Abend verbringen wir zu Hause.
• Zu Hause verbringen wir den Abend.

They all mean basically the same thing, but the emphasis changes slightly:

• Wir... focuses on we
• Den Abend... focuses on the evening
• Zu Hause... focuses on at home

Yes, it is completely natural.

It sounds like a normal, neutral statement. Germans often use verbringen with time expressions such as:

• den Abend
• den Tag
• das Wochenende
• den Urlaub

So Wir verbringen den Abend zu Hause is a very standard and idiomatic sentence.