caminamos

Caminamos is a Spanish verb form that comes from the infinitive caminar, meaning to walk. It functions as the first-person plural form in two related tenses: the present indicative, “we walk,” and the preterite (simple past), “we walked,” with the correct interpretation determined by context.

Grammatical notes: Caminamos is a regular -ar verb ending. In the present tense, it is used to describe an ongoing or habitual action by the speaker and others: we walk. In the preterite, it describes a completed action in the past: we walked. Because it ends in -amos, it can be ambiguous with other tenses in isolation, but surrounding verbs and time markers normally clarify the meaning. Other tense forms exist from caminar, such as caminábamos (we were walking / we used to walk), caminaremos (we will walk), and caminemos (let’s walk). The imperative form for the first-person plural is caminemos, used in exhortations like “Let’s walk.”

Usage and nuance: Caminamos appears frequently in everyday speech to indicate group movement on foot, travel, or progress. It can also appear in literary or musical contexts to convey collective action, momentum, or a forward-looking stance. The word is closely related to related terms such as camino (path or road) and caminante (walker).

See also: caminar, camino, caminante, caminata.