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Voy a hacer los mandados mañana.

Voy a hacer los mandados mañana.
I am going to run the errands tomorrow.
From Lesson 60:The near future (ir a)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Voy a hacer los mandados mañana.

How does the 'going to' future work in this sentence?
To talk about the near future, Spanish uses the verb ir (to go) + a + an infinitive verb (the basic, unconjugated form). Here, voy means 'I am going', a connects the verbs, and hacer means 'to do'. Together, voy a hacer means 'I am going to do'.
Why isn't the word for 'I' (yo) included here?
In Spanish, the verb itself tells you who is doing the action. Because voy only ever means 'I go' or 'I am going', you don't need to add yo unless you want to emphasize it. Starting the sentence with Voy a hacer is the most natural way to say it.
The English translation says 'run the errands', but doesn't hacer mean 'to do' or 'to make'?
Exactly! In English, we say we 'run' errands, but in Spanish, the standard expression is to 'do' the errands (hacer los mandados). It is a set phrase, so you can't translate it word-for-word using the Spanish verb for run (correr).
I thought mañana meant 'morning'. Why does it mean 'tomorrow' here?
The word mañana can mean both depending on the context! When it is used as a noun with a feminine 'the' (like la mañana), it means 'the morning'. When used as a time word on its own, like in this sentence, it means 'tomorrow'.

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