vamos

English

Verb

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."

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Galician

Verb

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vamo (eye dialect)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɐ̃.mus/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɐ̃.mus/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈvɐ̃.muʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɐ.mos/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɐ.muʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɐ.muʃ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈba.muʃ/

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

Verb

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.

Interjection

vamos!

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

Synonyms

• vamos lá, vambora

Spanish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

vamos

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

Descendants

• English: vamoose

Verb

vamos

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

Further reading

• “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], 2024 December 10