Vi stemmer om planen i morgen.

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Breakdown of Vi stemmer om planen i morgen.

• i morgen: tomorrow
• planen: the plan
• om: on

Questions & Answers about Vi stemmer om planen i morgen.

Why is stemmer in the present tense when the voting happens tomorrow?

In Norwegian, the present tense is very often used for future actions, especially when:

• the event is planned or scheduled, and
• there is a time expression in the sentence (like i morgen, snart, til neste uke, etc.).

So Vi stemmer om planen i morgen literally looks like “We vote on the plan tomorrow”, but is naturally understood as:

• “We are voting on the plan tomorrow.”
• “We will vote on the plan tomorrow.”

You can also say Vi skal stemme om planen i morgen, but the simple present stemmer is completely normal and very common in Norwegian.

What exactly does the verb stemme mean here, and does it have other meanings?