Questions & Answers about Vamos al norte hoy.
If this sentence is the answer, which question word from this lesson would we use to ask it?
Why is it al norte instead of just a norte?
In Spanish, compass directions like norte (north) use the masculine article el (the). When the preposition a (to) appears right before el, they must merge into the mandatory contraction al. So, al norte literally means "to the north."
Does vamos mean "we go" or "we are going"?
It can mean both! Spanish uses the simple present tense (vamos) for actions happening right now or in the near future. You don't need a complex "are going" grammatical structure here; vamos covers it perfectly.