caminaron

Caminaron is the preterite (simple past) form of the Spanish verb caminar for the third-person plural. It translates roughly as "they walked" and is used to indicate a completed action in the past. Caminar is a regular -ar verb, so its stem is camin- and the preterite ending for ellos/ellas/ustedes is -aron, yielding caminaron.

The form caminaron is typically used with subjects ellos, ellas, or ustedes in many dialects, including most of Latin American Spanish. In Spain, the corresponding second-person plural form for the past tense is usually caminasteis (for vosotros), while ustedes (third person) still takes caminaron in contemporary usage. The distinction depends on the pronoun and regional variation, but caminaron itself denotes the third-person plural past action across dialects.

Examples include:

Ellos caminaron por el parque. They walked through the park.

Ustedes caminaron hasta la estación. You all walked to the station.

Usage notes:

Caminaron appears in narratives and reports to describe a completed past action. It should not be confused with the imperfect form caminaban, which expresses ongoing or habitual past action. The verb is regular in conjugation, making its forms predictable across tenses.