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¿Puedes venir mañana?

¿Puedes venir mañana?
Can you come tomorrow?
From Lesson 34:Verb + infinitive (quiero comer, sé leer)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of ¿Puedes venir mañana?

mañana
tomorrow
poder
to be able to
venir
to come

Questions & Answers about ¿Puedes venir mañana?

Why is venir not conjugated here?
When two verbs are used together to express a single idea, only the first one is conjugated. Because puedes (can) is already conjugated to match 'you', the second verb, venir (to come), stays in its basic dictionary form (the infinitive).
I learned that the verb for 'can' is poder. Why is it spelled puedes here?
Poder is a stem-changing verb. For most of its present tense forms, the o in the middle changes to ue. That is why it becomes puedes instead of 'podes' for the informal 'you' (tú).
Doesn't mañana mean 'morning'?
It means both 'morning' and 'tomorrow'! When you use it as a noun with a feminine word like la (as in la mañana), it means 'the morning'. When used on its own to say when something is happening, like in this sentence, it means 'tomorrow'.
Where is the word for 'you' in this sentence?
In Spanish, the subject is usually built right into the verb. The -es ending on puedes tells us exactly who is doing the action: the informal 'you' (tú). You could ask ¿Tú puedes venir mañana?, but dropping the pronoun is much more natural.

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