Завтра мы полетим к морю.

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Breakdown of Завтра мы полетим к морю.

• море: the sea
• мы: we
• завтра: tomorrow

Questions & Answers about Завтра мы полетим к морю.

Why is полетим used here, and what form is it?

Полетим is the 1st person plural future form, meaning we will fly / we will set off flying.

It comes from the verb полететь, which is a perfective verb. In Russian, perfective verbs often describe a single complete action or the start of an action. So мы полетим suggests one specific trip in the future.

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Why is the future expressed with one word, not with something like будем лететь?

Russian has two common ways to talk about the future:

• Perfective future: one word
  
  • полетим = we will fly / we will set off
• Imperfective future: будем + infinitive
  
  • будем лететь = we will be flying

The sentence uses полетим because it presents the trip as a single future event. If you said Завтра мы будем лететь к морю, that would focus more on the process: Tomorrow we will be in the middle of flying toward the sea.

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What does the prefix по- add in полетим?