Caminás

Caminás is the second-person singular present indicative form of the Spanish verb caminar (to walk) in the voseo paradigm. It is used in regions that employ voseo, notably Argentina and Uruguay, and to a lesser extent in parts of Paraguay and Central America. This form corresponds to the tú form caminas in standard Spanish.

In terms of morphology, caminás is formed from the stem camin- plus the vos ending -ás, with orthographic accent on the ending to indicate stress on the last syllable (ca-mi-NÁS). The pronoun vos is often omitted in speech because the verb form itself encodes the second-person subject.

Usage and nuance: caminás is used for informal address to someone you are familiar with, equivalent to saying “you walk” in English, but in regions that use voseo it is the everyday second-person form. It appears in statements, questions, and exclamations, and its negative form is no caminás. For example: Hoy caminás por el parque. ¿Cuándo caminás tú? No caminás tan rápido como ayer.

Geographic and sociolinguistic note: voseo forms like caminás are a defining feature of Rioplatense Spanish and reflect regional norms of politeness, social distance, and familiarity. While widely used in casual speech in its core regions, many Spanish-speaking audiences outside those areas would default to the tú form caminas in formal or neutral writing.