Questions & Answers about El domingo iremos al zoológico con mis primos.
What is the function of El before domingo?
El is the definite article used with days of the week to mean “on Sunday.” In Spanish, you normally say el + day to express “on [day].” You can sometimes drop it in casual speech (e.g., answering “¿Qué día es hoy?” with “Domingo”), but in time expressions like this it’s standard.
Why is iremos used instead of vamos a ir?
Spanish offers two common ways to talk about the future:
- The simple future (e.g., iremos)
- The periphrastic future (vamos a ir)
Iremos is a single-word future tense and often sounds more formal or definitive. Vamos a ir is more colloquial and emphasizes a plan or intention, especially for events in the near future. Both are correct.
What tense and person is iremos?
Iremos is the first person plural (nosotros/nosotras) of the simple future tense of ir. It literally means “we will go.”
Why do we say al zoológico instead of a el zoológico?