pasamos

Pasamos is a conjugated form of the Spanish verb pasar. In the present indicative, it is the first-person plural form (nosotros/as pasamos), meaning “we pass,” “we go through,” or “we spend,” depending on context. It is also the first-person plural form in the preterite (simple past), meaning “we passed” or “we spent,” again depending on meaning.

Common meanings and uses

- Passage through or by a place: pasar por un lugar, can imply crossing or moving through something, as in we pass through the city.

- Crossing or traversing physically: pasar la frontera, pasar un puente.

- Spending time: pasar tiempo, pasar dos horas indicates spending that amount of time.

- Success in assessments: pasar un examen or pasar un curso means to pass an exam or course (to succeed).

Notes on meaning

The exact sense of pasamos depends on the object or prepositional phrases that accompany it. For example, pasar por Madrid can mean to travel through Madrid; pasar dos horas can mean to spend two hours; and pasar un examen conveys success in an assessment. Pasar can also appear in compound tenses and with different prepositional constructions, producing a range of related meanings such as “to happen” in some contexts or “to skip” in idiomatic phrases, though those uses rely on extended expressions rather than the base form.

Etymology and related forms

Pasar comes from Latin passare, related to passus (step). The verb has a wide set of uses in Spanish, with pasar forming the basis for many compound tenses (he pasado, hemos pasado) and compound expressions common in everyday language.

See also

Pasar, list of Spanish verb conjugations.