vanmorgen

Vanmorgen is a Dutch adverb meaning "this morning" or "earlier today." It refers to the morning period that has already occurred on the current day. The term is used in both spoken and written Dutch and appears in news reports, literature, and everyday conversation.

In use, vanmorgen functions as a time reference within a sentence. Examples in Dutch include: “Vanmorgen heeft hij de bus gemist” (This morning he missed the bus) and “Vanmorgen vroeg begon de vergadering” (The meeting began early this morning). The phrase is typically placed near the verb to indicate the time of action, and it can combine with other time phrases to emphasize earlier hours, such as “vanmorgen nog” or “vanmorgen vroeg.”

Etymology and nuance: vanmorgen is formed from van (from) and morgen (morning). The word morgen historically also carried the modern double meaning of “morning” and “tomorrow,” but in vanmorgen the intended sense is clearly the current day’s morning. In contemporary Dutch, vanmorgen is a standard, unambiguous term and is not considered archaic, although context is important because morgen can still mean both morning and tomorrow in other constructions.

See also: gistermorgen (yesterday morning), vanmiddag (this afternoon), vandaag (today). The term is widely used across the Dutch-speaking regions, including the Netherlands and Flanders, and remains a common way to anchor actions in the morning portion of the day.