Questions & Answers about Domani andiamo in vacanza.
Why does the verb andiamo start with "and-" when forms like "I go" (vado) start with a "v"?
Andare (to go) is one of the most irregular verbs in Italian. While the "I", "you", "he/she", and "they" forms all start with a v- (like vado, vai, va, vanno), the "we" and "you all" forms keep the and- root. So, "we go" is andiamo and "you all go" is andate.
The translation says "we are going", but isn't andiamo the present tense?
Yes, andiamo is the simple present tense ("we go"). In Italian, the simple present tense is often used to talk about the future, as long as the event is planned and you include a time word like domani (tomorrow). You don't need a complex "are going" tense to express this in Italian.
Why do we use in for "on vacation"?
Prepositions rarely translate directly between English and Italian. The phrase "to go on vacation" is always andare in vacanza in Italian. It is best to memorize this as a set chunk of vocabulary.
Where is the word for "we" (noi) in this sentence?
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