Rindamos

Rindamos is the first-person plural present subjunctive form of the Spanish verb rendir. The verb rendir has senses including to yield, to render, to perform or accomplish, to surrender, or to produce. In the present subjunctive, rindamos appears in subordinate clauses that express doubt, possibility, necessity, wish, or after expressions that require the subjunctive, such as es posible que, es necesario que, or para que.

Morphology and usage notes: Rendir is an irregular -ir verb with a stem change (e to i) in several forms. In the present subjunctive, the nosotros form is rindamos, built on the stem rend- with the standard subjunctive ending -amos. Other persons are rindas, rinda, rindamos, rindáis, rindan. This form is common in formal or literary-register constructions and in commands or recommendations framed as wishes or obligations.

Common contexts and examples: The form appears in sentences like “Espero que rindamos cuentas al final del trimestre” (I hope that we render account/take responsibility at the end of the quarter) and “Es necesario que rindamos cuentas de lo ocurrido” (It is necessary that we render accounts of what happened). It may also occur after expressions such as “ojalá que rindamos” (let us yield/well perform) or “para que rindamos mejores resultados” (so that we yield better results).

Etymology and related phrases: Rendit, from Latin rendere, has given rise to rendir and to the noun rendición, meaning rendering or accounting. The phrase rendir cuentas, literally to render accounts, is a common collocation. Rindamos is thus primarily a grammatical form used to express subjective mood in Spanish.