Learn Russian: Завтра нам не нужно никуда торопиться. - Tomorrow we do not need to hurry anywhere.

In Russian, negative obligations (meaning "don't need to" or "shouldn't") usually take an imperfective infinitive. So after не нужно or не надо, you almost always use the imperfective aspect, even if you are talking about a single, specific action happening завтра (tomorrow).

Why is it нам instead of мы?

Words like нужно and надо are impersonal, meaning they don't take a standard subject like "we" (мы). Instead, the person who "needs" to do something is put in the Dative case, so мы becomes нам. Literally, the structure translates to "to us it is not necessary."

Why do we use никуда (nowhere / to nowhere) instead of нигде (nowhere / in no place)?

The verb торопиться (to hurry) strongly implies movement toward a destination. In Russian, when referring to direction or a destination, we use "where to" words like куда or никуда, rather than static location words like где or нигде.

The English translation says "anywhere." Why does the Russian sentence use the negative word никуда?

Russian requires double negation. Whenever you negate the main verb or predicate with не, any pronouns or adverbs like "anywhere" or "anything" must also take their negative forms, like никуда (nowhere) or ничего (nothing). Literally, the sentence says: "Tomorrow to us it is not necessary to hurry nowhere."