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Sentence

Vamos a hacer una excursión.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

We're going to take a trip.

Notes

Usamos la perífrasis verbal Ir a + Infinitivo para hablar de una acción en un futuro próximo.



Analysis


vamos
     1. interj. come on! (expression of encouragement)
     2. v. first-person plural imperative of ir; Let us go, let's go
     ir
          1. v. to go (away from speaker and listener)
          2. v. to come (towards or with the listener)
          3. v. (auxiliary) to be going to (near future), to go (+ a + infinitive)
          4. v. to go away, to leave, to depart, to go (when the destination is not essential; when something or someone is going somewhere else)
          5. v. to leak out (with liquids and gasses), to boil away, to go flat (gas in drinks)
          6. v. to overflow
          7. v. to go out (lights)
          8. v. to finish, to wear out, to disappear (e.g. money, paint, pains, mechanical parts)
          9. v. to die
          10. v. to break wind, to fart
          11. v. to wet/soil oneself (i.e., urinate or defecate in one's pants)
          12. v. to come, to cum, to ejaculate, to orgasm
a
     1. prep. to
     2. prep. by
     3. prep. at
     4. prep. ng-lite, Used before words referring to people, pets, or personified objects or places that function as direct objects: personal a.
hacer
     1. v. to do
     2. v. to make (something)
     3. v. to make (e.g. someone do something or feel a certain way.)
     4. v. to be
     5. v. to go (to release or excrete (urine, excrement))
     6. v. (ambitransitive, optionally with de) to play (a part in a play)
     7. v. to become; to get
     8. v. to pretend being, play
     9. v. to play the fool
     10. v. to prep, adorn, do (a body part)
     11. v. to get used to (chiefly in idioms)
     12. v. to arrive (said of a certain time), be now
     13. n-m. task, action
una
     1. n-f. feminine of uno
     2. art. feminine singular of un
     3. det. feminine singular of uno
     4. pron. one (an indefinite plural pronoun using a singular feminine item, used for females)
     5. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of unir
     unir
          1. v. to unite, join
          2. v. to merge, conflate
     un
          1. art. a
          2. num. (before the noun) apocopic form of uno one
excursión
     1. n-f. excursion, trip




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