How do you say let's?
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As in: Let's go to the mall. Or let's do somthing. Would you just put vamos?
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updated MAY 30, 2010
edited by jeezzle
posted by alexisearthman
Sorry about the corrections. They have been real sticklers about grammar lately. - jeezzle, MAY 30, 2010
Vamos - 00813f2a, MAY 30, 2010
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They call these nosotros commands (or exhortations).
There are several ways to make them.
- you use the 1st person, plural, subjunctive form of the verb
- you use a phrase including vamos+a+verb infinitive
- you use a phrase employing que and the subjunctive verb
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updated MAY 30, 2010
edited by 0074b507
posted by 0074b507
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So as far as I know, the best equivalent for let's is vamos, as jeezle said. Let's is really an expression that doesn't really make sense if you think about it (let us? what?) so unless there's a better translation that is more similar to the original contraction, stick to vamos.
updated MAY 30, 2010
posted by psyche_of_frogs
Esaclty. by itself, Vamos means "Let's go" not Let's. Vamos a comer. Let's eat. - 0074b507, MAY 30, 2010
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Yes. To say let's you just conjugate the verb. Let's go = vamos.
updated MAY 30, 2010
posted by jeezzle
