Revisamos el tamaño del geocaché antes de buscar el caché tradicional.

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Breakdown of Revisamos el tamaño del geocaché antes de buscar el caché tradicional.

• buscar: to look for
• revisar: to check
• el tamaño del geocaché: the cache size

Questions & Answers about Revisamos el tamaño del geocaché antes de buscar el caché tradicional.

What does revisamos mean here, and what person is it?

Revisamos comes from revisar, which often means to check, to look over, or to inspect.

Here it is 1st person plural: we check / we checked.

So revisamos can mean either:

• we check (present)
• we checked (preterite/simple past)

With nosotros forms of regular -ar verbs, the present and the preterite look the same:

• revisamos = we check
• revisamos = we checked

You usually tell which one it is from context.

How can revisamos mean both we check and we checked?

This is a very common question. In Spanish, some verb forms are identical in different tenses.

For regular -ar verbs, the nosotros form of the present and the preterite is the same:

• hablamos
• miramos
• revisamos

So:

• Hoy revisamos el tamaño = Today we check the size
• Ayer revisamos el tamaño = Yesterday we checked the size

Time words like hoy, ayer, antes, luego, etc. usually make the meaning clear.

Why is it del geocaché and not de el geocaché?