Home
Q&A
Best Spanish Word for "Let's"

Best Spanish Word for "Let's"

2
votes

What is the most used Spanish word for "Let's" as in "Let's go to the store" or "Let's all try that one"

1825 views
updated Dec 5, 2010
edited by Lucamos
posted by Lucamos

7 Answers

3
votes

comamos=let's eat - hablemos=let's talk - etc. In general, one simply uses the 1st person plural of the present subjunctive.

As stated "vamos a intentar ..." can be used with that sense but it can also be interpreted as "we are going to try ..." / "we will try ..."

updated Dec 5, 2010
posted by samdie
3
votes

Vamos a tienda Vamos a intentar eso

Vamos by itself is used to means let´s go.

updated Dec 5, 2010
posted by BellaMargarita
2
votes

lechuga wink

updated Dec 5, 2010
posted by lorenzo9
jajajaja, good one Lorenzo!! :) - Jason7R, Dec 5, 2010
2
votes

Let's (let us)

Let's + Verb = Imperative

Ex.:

Let's go! : ¡Vamos! or ¡Vámonos!

Let's pray!: ¡Oremos!

Let's not argue about it: No discutamos

updated Dec 5, 2010
posted by Carlos-F
2
votes

What is the most used Spanish word for "Let's" as in "Let's go to the store" or "Let's all try that one"

None, because Spanish doesn't have such a word. Actually, I don't know any other language that has such a word. See other people's comments for alternatives ways of expressing the same thing.

updated Dec 5, 2010
posted by lazarus1907
2
votes

"Let's" is a helping word in English. It doesn't get translated exactly into Spanish. It's implied as part of the verb conjugation and the sentence structure. In other words, you don't say it exactly word-for-word the same in Spanish, as Margaret-Nah said.

updated Dec 5, 2010
edited by KevinB
posted by KevinB
1
vote

Also the subjunctive first person plural of verbs can mean "let's do" that verb.

updated Dec 5, 2010
posted by TheSilentHero