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Vamos al norte hoy.

Vamos al norte hoy.
We are going north today.
From Lesson 25:Asking where (dónde, adónde)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of Vamos al norte hoy.

ir
to go
hoy
today
al
to the
el norte
the north

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?
Because this sentence states a destination ("to the north"), you would use adónde (to where). The matching question would be ¿Adónde vamos hoy? (Where are we going today?).
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.
Where is the word for "we" in this sentence?
It is built right into the verb! The word vamos is the "we" form of the verb ir (to go). Because the verb itself already tells us who is going, you can leave out the pronoun nosotros (we) entirely.

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