Завтра мы собираемся устроить пикник в парке, если погода будет хорошей.

Tomorrow we are going to have a picnic in the park if the weather is good.

Breakdown of Завтра мы собираемся устроить пикник в парке, если погода будет хорошей.

• парк: the park
• в: in
• быть: to be
• если: if

Questions & Answers about Завтра мы собираемся устроить пикник в парке, если погода будет хорошей.

Why is собираемся in the present tense if the sentence is about tomorrow?

In Russian, собираться + infinitive works like English to be going to. It’s conjugated in the present (мы собираемся) but refers to a planned future action, especially when you also have a time word like завтра.

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What does собираться literally mean, and why does it end in -ся?

Собираться originally means to gather / to get together / to get ready, and with an infinitive it commonly means to intend / be going to. The -ся is part of the verb’s dictionary form; it’s a reflexive marker historically, but here you can mostly treat собираться (что-то сделать) as a single “planning/intending” verb pattern.

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Why do we use устроить (perfective) and not устраивать (imperfective)?

Устроить is perfective and fits a one-time, completed event: to arrange/organize (a picnic) as a single plan.
Устраивать (imperfective) would suggest something more habitual/repeated or focus on the process: We (often) arrange picnics or We’re arranging (process-focused).

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Is устроить пикник the most natural way to say ?