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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vamo (Brazilian, colloquial)

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/

• Hyphenation: va‧mos

Verb

vamos

1. inflection of ir:
   1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. first-person plural imperative
2. (auxiliary, followed by infinitive) forms the analytic first-person plural imperative: let's

   Vamos almoçar.

   Let’s have lunch.

Interjection

vamos!

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

Synonyms

• vamos lá, vambora

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

vamos

1. 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014