Desbloqueamos el compartimento.

It can mean either one.

With many -ar verbs in Spanish, the nosotros/nosotras form is the same in:

• the present: we unlock
• the preterite: we unlocked

So desbloqueamos can mean:

• we unlock
• we unlocked

You usually tell which one it is from context, time words, or the surrounding sentences.

For example:

• Ahora desbloqueamos el compartimento. = Now we unlock the compartment.
• Ayer desbloqueamos el compartimento. = Yesterday we unlocked the compartment.

The infinitive is desbloquear.

It breaks down like this:

• bloquear = to block / to lock
• des- = a prefix that often means undo or reverse

So desbloquear means to unlock.

Because Spanish often drops the subject pronoun when the verb ending already shows who is doing the action.

In desbloqueamos, the ending -amos tells you the subject is we (nosotros/nosotras).

So Spanish normally says:

• Desbloqueamos el compartimento.

And not necessarily:

• Nosotros desbloqueamos el compartimento.

Adding nosotros is possible, but it usually adds:

• emphasis
• contrast
• or clarity

Example:

• Nosotros desbloqueamos el compartimento, no ellos.
  = We unlocked the compartment, not them.

In Spanish, articles such as el, la, los, and las are used more often than in English.

So even where English might say:

• we unlocked compartment 3
  Spanish often prefers:
• desbloqueamos el compartimento 3

Here, el is the masculine singular definite article, meaning the.

It is used because:

• compartimento is masculine
• it is singular
• and the sentence is referring to a specific compartment

Because it takes el:

• el compartimento

Also, nouns ending in -o are often masculine, though not always.

So:

• el compartimento
• plural: los compartimentos

An adjective would also agree with it:

• el compartimento abierto
• el compartimento secreto

Because this is a direct object that refers to a thing, not a person.

Spanish uses the personal a mainly before specific people (and sometimes pets or personified beings), not before ordinary objects.

So:

• Desbloqueamos el compartimento. ✅
• Desbloqueamos a el compartimento. ❌

Compare:

• Vemos el compartimento. = We see the compartment.
• Vemos a María. = We see María.

A helpful pronunciation guide is:

des-blo-que-A-mos

The stress falls on a:

• des-blo-que-A-mos

A rough English approximation:

• dess-bloh-keh-AH-moss

A few useful points:

• qu before e sounds like a hard k
• the u in que is not pronounced
• so que sounds like keh

So desbloqueamos is roughly:

• dess-bloh-keh-AH-moss

Because Spanish spelling uses qu before e or i to keep the hard k sound.

The infinitive is:

• desbloquear

When it is conjugated:

• yo desbloqueo
• nosotros desbloqueamos

If Spanish wrote desbloceamos, the sound would not be the same. The spelling qu keeps the pronunciation consistent:

• que = keh

This is a normal spelling pattern in Spanish:

• buscar → busqué
• sacar → saqué
• bloquear → bloqueamos

Because Spanish stress rules already place the stress in the correct spot, so no accent mark is needed.

Desbloqueamos ends in -s, and words ending in a vowel, n, or s normally have stress on the second-to-last syllable.

So the stress naturally falls on:

• des-blo-que-a-mos

Since that is the expected stress, no written accent is necessary.

Yes, that is completely correct.

But in normal Spanish, the pronoun nosotros is often left out because the verb already shows the subject.

So:

• Desbloqueamos el compartimento. = natural and common
• Nosotros desbloqueamos el compartimento. = also correct, but more emphatic

You might include nosotros when:

• you want to stress who did it
• you are contrasting with someone else
• you want extra clarity

The most neutral word order is:

• Desbloqueamos el compartimento.

That is:

• verb + object

Spanish word order is more flexible than English, but not every change sounds equally natural.

For example:

• El compartimento lo desbloqueamos.
  This is possible if you want to emphasize the compartment.

But for a simple, neutral sentence, Desbloqueamos el compartimento is the best choice.