Learn Spanish (Spain): Mañana vamos a la farmacia. - Tomorrow we are going to the pharmacy.

The word farmacia is feminine, so it uses the feminine article la (the). We only combine the preposition a (to) with the article when the article is the masculine el, creating the contraction al. Because it is a plus la, they stay as two separate words.

Why does vamos mean 'we are going'? Isn't that present tense?

Yes! The word vamos is the present tense of the verb ir (to go). In Spanish, it is very common to use the simple present tense to talk about things happening in the near future, especially when you include a time word like Mañana (Tomorrow).

Where is the word for 'we'?

In Spanish, you usually do not need to say the subject pronoun (nosotros for 'we') because the verb ending already tells you who is doing the action. The verb form vamos can only mean 'we go' or 'we are going'.

How do you pronounce the 'c' in farmacia in Spain?

In Spanish from Spain, the letter c before an i or e is pronounced with a 'th' sound, similar to the English word 'think'. So the end of farmacia sounds a bit like 'thee-ah'.