Сегодня вечером у нас репетиция в большом зале.

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Breakdown of Сегодня вечером у нас репетиция в большом зале.

• в: in
• вечер: the evening
• мы: we

Questions & Answers about Сегодня вечером у нас репетиция в большом зале.

Why do we need both сегодня and вечером? Isn’t that like saying “today this evening”?

In Russian it’s completely normal to combine a day word with a time-of-day word:

• сегодня вечером – this evening (today in the evening)
• завтра утром – tomorrow morning
• вчера ночью – last night

It isn’t redundant; it just specifies which evening: tonight, not yesterday evening or tomorrow evening. Structurally, сегодня means today, and вечером (literally in the evening) tells you the time of day. Together they are similar to English this evening / tonight.

What exactly does у нас mean, and how does it mean “we have”?

Literally, у нас means by us / at our place / with us.

Russian usually expresses “to have” with a structure у + [person in genitive] + [thing], for example:

• у меня книга – I have a book (literally: by me [there is] a book)
• у нас репетиция – we have a rehearsal
• у них экзамен – they have an exam

So у нас is the standard way to say we have in many contexts, especially for scheduled events, possessions, or things happening “on our side”.

Why is there no separate word for “have” in this sentence? Where is the verb?