Pasear y pasar un rato

Question

Es pasear igual a decir pasar un rato?

Tu y yo paseamos en el café.

Tu y yo pasamos un rato en el café.

Gracias!

Answer 1

No, they don't have anything to do.

"Tú y yo paseamos en el café" doesn't have much sense. It means that you were walking in the café (andar dentro de la cafetería). Much more common: "Tú y yo paseamos al café / hacia el café" (towards).

"Tú y yo pasamos un rato en el café" means that you stayed for a while in the café (estuvimos un rato en la cafetería).

Gracias! - Campino33, Nov 8, 2014

De nada, Campino. :) - Cordobesa, Nov 8, 2014

Ojalá que pudieramos pasar un rato juntos en el café, Cordobesa. - annierats, Nov 8, 2014

Y pasear por aquel parque junto al río que me enseñaste, o por la orilla del mar, que ahora tienes más cerca. :)) - Cordobesa, Nov 8, 2014

No, they don't have anything to do "with each other" is better amiga xx - ian-hill, Nov 8, 2014

Muchas gracias por tu ayuda, Ian. :) - Cordobesa, Nov 8, 2014

Answer 2

Pasear un rato doesn't make any sense to me ...

Pasear when used as a transitive verb means to walk someone (to take someone for a walk) .. so unless you have a dog called "rato" in which case you may say "pasear a rato" (to take rato on a walk) it doesn't make sense to me.

Pasar un rato seems the correct one ...

but I am not a native so you may check and confirm with a native too