vamos

vamos

1. Obsolete form of vamoose.
   • 1854, Philip Paxton, A Stray Yankee in Texas, page 117:

     When he wishes to leave, he does not say with the Yankee, "Well, we'd better be a goin'," but "Let's vamos," or "Let's vamos the ranche."

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

vamos

1. first-person plural imperative of ir
2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ir:
   1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. first-person plural imperative

• vamo (eye dialect)

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃mus, -ɐmuʃ
• Hyphenation: va‧mos

vamos

1. inflection of ir:
   1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. first-person plural imperative
2. (auxiliary) forms the analytic first-person plural imperative; let's [with infinitive]

   Vamos almoçar.

   Let’s have lunch.

vamos!

1. let's go
2. come on! (an expression of encouragement)

• vamos lá, vambora

From Latin vādāmus, the present subjunctive form, replacing Old Spanish imos in the indicative. Compare the analogical form, vayamos, which is the Spanish present subjunctive form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbamos/ [ˈba.mos]
• Rhymes: -amos
• Syllabification: va‧mos

vamos

1. let's go!
2. come on! (expression of encouragement)

• English: vamoose

vamos

1. inflection of ir:
   1. first-person plural present indicative
   2. first-person plural imperative

• “vamos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024