Elegimos programas de lavado y ciclos de secado.

The verb is elegir (to choose).

In the present tense, elegir is a stem-changing verb: e → i in some forms, but not in the nosotros and vosotros forms.

So in standard Spanish (including Spain), the present tense goes:

• elijo
• eliges
• elige
• elegimos
• elegís
• eligen

That is why we choose is elegimos, not eligimos.

It can mean either one.

For nosotros/nosotras, some -ir verbs have the same form in the present and the preterite:

• elegimos = we choose / we are choosing
• elegimos = we chose

So you need context to know which meaning is intended.

No. Spanish usually drops subject pronouns when the verb ending already makes the subject clear.

• Elegimos programas de lavado y ciclos de secado.
• Nosotros elegimos programas de lavado y ciclos de secado.

Both are correct, but the version without nosotros is more natural unless you want emphasis or contrast, for example:

• Nosotros elegimos los programas, no ellos.

Because the sentence is talking about things in a general way, not necessarily about specific, already-identified programs and cycles.

So:

• Elegimos programas de lavado y ciclos de secado
  = We choose washing programs and drying cycles in general.

If you said:

• Elegimos los programas de lavado y los ciclos de secado

that would sound more like you mean specific programs and cycles already known in the situation.

Here, de + noun describes the type or function of something.

So:

• programas de lavado = washing programs
• ciclos de secado = drying cycles

A very literal translation would look like programs of washing and cycles of drying, but that is not natural English. In English, we usually turn these into washing and drying.

Because lavado and secado are being used as nouns here:

• lavado = washing / wash
• secado = drying / dry

Spanish often uses de + noun to classify things:

• programa de lavado
• ciclo de secado

Using the infinitives lavar and secar would not sound as natural in this context.

For example:

• programas para lavar would mean something more like programs to wash, which sounds less like appliance settings and more like a purpose clause.

In this sentence, they are functioning as nouns.

That can be confusing, because the forms are identical to the past participles:

• lavado = washed / also washing, wash
• secado = dried / also drying, dry

Here they are not describing another noun like adjectives. They are the names of processes or categories:

• lavado = the washing process
• secado = the drying process

So programas de lavado means programs for the washing process, and ciclos de secado means cycles for the drying process.

In appliance-related language, they are similar but not exactly the same.

• programa often means a setting or preset option you choose.
• ciclo often means a complete run or sequence of operation.

So:

• programas de lavado = washing settings/programs
• ciclos de secado = drying cycles

In real-life usage, there can be some overlap, especially in manuals or product descriptions.

A Spain Spanish pronunciation would be approximately:

eh-leh-HEE-mos პრო-GRA-mas deh lah-VA-do ee SEE-klos deh seh-KA-do

A few useful points:

• g in elegimos sounds like a strong throaty sound before i
• c in ciclos is pronounced like th in much of Spain: THI-klos
• y is pronounced like ee here

So in much of Spain, ciclos sounds roughly like THEE-klos.

Because it follows the normal Spanish stress rules.

Words ending in a vowel, n, or s are normally stressed on the second-to-last syllable. So:

• e-le-GI-mos

Since that stress is already regular, no written accent is needed.

The same applies to:

• lavado → la-VA-do
• secado → se-CA-do
• ciclos → CI-clos