Viajamos hacia el este.

to travel

Breakdown of Viajamos hacia el este.

• hacia: toward
• el este: the east

Questions & Answers about Viajamos hacia el este.

What does viajamos mean grammatically?

Viajamos is the first person plural form of viajar (to travel), so it means we travel, we are traveling, or sometimes we traveled, depending on context.

Subject pronouns are often omitted in Spanish, so nosotros viajamos and viajamos both mean we travel / we are traveling.

Is viajamos present tense or past tense here?

By itself, viajamos can be either:

• present indicative: we travel / we are traveling
• preterite: we traveled

Spanish has several verb forms like this where the nosotros form is identical in the present and preterite. Normally, context tells you which meaning is intended. In a standalone learning sentence like this, it is often understood as we travel toward the east or we are traveling toward the east.

Why is hacia used here?