casamos

Casamos is a verb form found in Spanish and Portuguese. It is the first-person plural present indicative of the verb casar, meaning “to marry.” In both languages, casarmos can be used in two main ways: transitively to indicate that the subject marries someone, and reflexively to express that the subject themselves is getting married, typically written as nos casamos or nós nos casamos.

In Spanish, casar is used transitively as casamos a alguien to mean “we marry someone.” The reflexive form nos casamos means “we are getting married” or “we got married” depending on the context and accompanying time expression, such as Nos casamos el año pasado (We got married last year) or Nos casamos este verano (We are getting married this summer). The form casamos without a reflexive pronoun is usually part of a fuller construction where a direct object is present, for example, Casamos a Juan y a María (We marry Juan and María).

In Portuguese, casamos likewise appears in a transitive sense: Nós casamos João e Maria (We marry João and Maria) or Casamos João e Maria. The reflexive form Nós nos casamos expresses the act of marrying each other, as in Nós nos casamos no civil/no próximo verão (We are getting married next summer). Portuguese also uses the pronominal form for a couple getting married together, analogous to Spanish.

See also: casamiento/casamento (the noun for the marriage event in Spanish and Portuguese respectively).