Please translate "vámonos"

Question

Please translate "vámonos" for me... I think I'm spelling it correctly.. but not sure. I hear this word a lot, i.e., on TV. What is the translation? I can't find it in the dictionary or in "Answers".

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Answer 1

Q's first and original answer was really the best and most appropriate answer given the context.

Talking about ¡Vayamos! as an option for "let's go"; although valid, is bound to create some confusion.

Vayamos is most commonly used when we're suggesting or proposing to go somewhere: Let's go to Heidi's Halloween's party, let's go to Q's language workshop.

¡Vayamos! could be used as "let's go" as an answer to such a suggestion:

What say we go to Heidi's party? - Yeah, let's go!

¿Qué tal si vamos a la fiesta de Heidi? - ¡Si, vayamos!

However, if we just want to say: Let's go! As in: "all right kids, let's go, get moving!" then we normally use: "Vamos" or "Vámonos":

Listo chicos, ¡vamos, a moverse!, or ¡A moverse chicos, vámonos!

Thanks for the clarification. Seeing what the negative command is: no vayamos, I thought for sure, vayamos must have some meaning as a command. - 0074b507, Dec 7, 2011

Answer 2

Let's leave. [Let's get out of here!]

Often used like ¡Vamos! (Let's go).

It is a nosotros command. (vamos+nos)= Irse.

BTW, you spelled it correctly.

Gracias! - Gillygaloo, Dec 7, 2011

:) - FELIZ77, Dec 7, 2011

Answer 3

1.¡Vámonos! = Let's go!

2.¡Vayamos! is not really used that much. Él dijo que nos vayamos de su casa. He said to leave his house. It is most commonly used. Él dijo que nos fuéramos de su casa.
1. Váyase de aquí! = Get out of here!

Don't forget to put the exclamation signs on both ends. The expression ¡Vámonos! has a lot of emotion.

Well said, not used much. But "Él dijo que nos vayamos de su casa" would not be correct in the preterit anyhow. "El prefiere que nos vayamos de su casa" would be a more cautious rendering on the part of a well-spoken person. . - 0000000, Dec 7, 2011

Answer 4

http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/?r Please look at this link, i am not sure but it can be Conjugation of ir, nosotros, "vayamos"

That's close, but not the word I have been hearing. Interesting that "vámonos" is not in any translator or dicitionary! - Gillygaloo, Dec 7, 2011

Did you look under the command forms? - 0074b507, Dec 7, 2011

No, Q, I'm not sure I know what you are referring to.. but I'll look. - Gillygaloo, Dec 7, 2011

i heard it used in the film "Born on the Fourth of July" when the veterans were in Mexico. - rossv, Aug 10, 2015

Answer 5

Do you mean "vamos"?

Answer 6

Please look at this link, i am not sure but it can be Conjugation of ir, nosotros, "vayamos"

I believe I have seen vayamos used also, but like you I am not sure that it is correct. Ir is the only irregular verb in the nosotros commands. It uses the indicative mood "vamos" where other verbs would use the 1st person, plural subjunctive mood form (vayamos). But I think I recall reading once that either vamos or vayamos is acceptable for Ir. I googled and found vayámonos for Irse; so vayamos for Ir is probably also correct. (Though my book of verbs lists vamos and no vayamos for the nosotros command forms of the verb Ir.)

Our dictionary actually conjugates Irse, but is noticeably missing the command forms.