Escalamos

Escalamos is a Spanish verb form derived from escalar, meaning to climb or scale. It is the first-person plural form used in two tenses: the present indicative (we climb) and the pretérito indefinido, the simple past (we climbed). Because both tenses share the same spelling, context is needed to determine the intended time frame.

The verb escalar comes from Latin scala, meaning ladder, and is related to other words such as escala (scale), escalera (ladder), and escalamiento (scaling). The related noun escalada denotes an ascent, and escalador refers to a climber.

In everyday use, escalamos appears in literal climbing contexts—mountaineering, rock climbing, scaling a wall—as well as figurative uses such as scaling obstacles or escalating prices. For example, present tense: Nosotros escalamos la montaña cada verano. Preterite: Ayer escalamos el acantilado.

The pronunciation is roughly es-ka-LA-mos. In written Spanish, the form can be ambiguous between present and past, with readers relying on surrounding wording to infer the tense.