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Voy a estudiar. ¡Hasta mañana!

Voy a estudiar. ¡Hasta mañana!
I am going to study. See you tomorrow!
From Lesson 60:The near future (ir a)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of Voy a estudiar. ¡Hasta mañana!

estudiar
to study
ir
to go
hasta mañana
see you tomorrow

Questions & Answers about Voy a estudiar. ¡Hasta mañana!

How do we form the near future in Voy a estudiar?
This construction works a lot like English! You take a form of the verb ir (to go), which here is voy (I am going). Then you add the connecting word a (to), followed by the main action verb in its basic dictionary form, estudiar (to study).
Why isn't it Yo voy a estudiar?
In Spanish, the verb form usually tells you who is doing the action. Because voy only ever means 'I am going', we don't need to include the word yo (I). Native speakers usually drop the pronoun unless they want to add special emphasis.
Why doesn't the word estudiar change to match the 'I' form?
In the ir a structure, you only conjugate the first verb. The second verb always stays in its unconjugated infinitive form, ending in -ar, -er, or -ir. Saying Voy a estudio would literally mean 'I am going to I study', which sounds just as strange in Spanish as it does in English!
I thought the word mañana meant 'morning'. Why does it mean 'tomorrow' here?
The word mañana actually means both 'morning' and 'tomorrow'! Context is your best clue. The fixed greeting Hasta mañana literally means 'Until tomorrow'. If someone meant 'Until the morning', they would usually include the word 'the' and say Hasta la mañana.

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