Questions & Answers about Revisamos el coste.
What grammatical form is revisamos?
Revisamos is the first-person plural form of revisar, so it means we do the action.
A very important point: this form can be either:
- present indicative: we review / we check
- preterite: we reviewed / we checked
That happens because for many -ar verbs, the nosotros form is the same in those two tenses. Only context tells you which one is meant.
Why isn’t nosotros included?
Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.
So revisamos already tells you the subject is we.
- Revisamos el coste. = normal, natural
- Nosotros revisamos el coste. = also correct, but more emphatic
You would usually add nosotros only if you want contrast, emphasis, or clarity.
Is revisar the same as English to revise?
Not exactly.
In many everyday contexts, revisar means:
- to check
- to look over
- to review
- to inspect
So in this sentence, it usually has the sense of checking/reviewing something.
It can sometimes overlap with English revise, especially in the sense of going over something carefully, but it is very often broader and more practical than the English word. So it is best not to assume it always means revise.
Why is there an article in el coste?
Spanish often uses the definite article where English might or might not use the.
Here, el coste means a specific cost that both speaker and listener can identify, so the article is natural.
Without the article, coste would usually sound incomplete or unnatural in this sentence.
So:
- Revisamos el coste. = natural
- Revisamos coste. = generally not correct here
Why is it el coste and not la coste?
Why use coste and not costo or precio?
Why isn’t there an a before el coste?
Because el coste is a direct object referring to a thing, not a person.
Spanish uses the personal a mainly with specific people:
- Vemos a María.
- Revisamos el coste.
Is the word order fixed here?
The sentence uses the most neutral word order for Spanish:
- Revisamos el coste.
That is completely normal.
You can also say:
- Nosotros revisamos el coste.
But that adds emphasis to we.
You could move el coste to the front, but that would sound marked or contrastive, not neutral:
- El coste lo revisamos mañana.
So the original sentence is the straightforward, standard way to say it.
Is revisar a regular verb?
Yes. Revisar is a regular -ar verb.
Its nosotros form is made like this:
- infinitive: revisar
- stem: revis-
- ending: -amos
- result: revisamos
That regular pattern is one reason why this form is easy to recognise, even though it is still ambiguous between present and preterite.
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