Limpiamos la junta de la puerta.

Limpiamos is the first person plural form of limpiar (to clean), so it goes with we.

It can mean:

• we clean (present)
• we cleaned (preterite / simple past)

So by itself, limpiamos is ambiguous. Normally, the wider context tells you which meaning is intended.

Because Spanish often omits subject pronouns when they are not needed.

The ending -amos already tells you the subject is we. So:

• Limpiamos la junta de la puerta.
• Nosotros limpiamos la junta de la puerta.

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

For example:

• Nosotros limpiamos la junta, no ellos.
  = We cleaned the seal, not them.

Here, junta means something like seal, gasket, or joint.

With de la puerta, it refers to the sealing part around a door, not to the more famous meaning of junta in politics or government.

So in this sentence, la junta de la puerta is a physical part of the door.

No. Junta has several meanings depending on context.

Common ones include:

• seal / gasket / joint
• board / committee / council
• in some contexts, a meeting or assembly

In Limpiamos la junta de la puerta, the context makes it clear that it means the seal/gasket.

Spanish very often uses the structure:

noun + de + noun

So:

• la junta de la puerta = literally the seal of the door

English often prefers a noun used like an adjective:

• the door seal

Both mean the same thing, but Spanish usually needs the de structure here.

Because puerta is a feminine noun:

• la puerta

The contraction del only happens with de + el:

• de + el = del

But with feminine la, there is no contraction:

• de + la = de la

So:

• del coche
• de la puerta

Spanish uses definite articles (el, la, los, las) more often than English.

Here:

• la junta = the seal
• la puerta = the door

In English, we might say the door seal with only one the, but Spanish naturally keeps the article with both nouns in this structure:

• la junta de la puerta

That is normal and idiomatic.

No, that would sound wrong in standard Spanish.

To link the two nouns, Spanish normally needs de:

• la junta de la puerta ✅
• la junta puerta ❌

English can put nouns together directly, but Spanish usually cannot do that in this kind of phrase.

The neutral, most natural order is:

Limpiamos la junta de la puerta.

That is:

• verb: Limpiamos
• object: la junta de la puerta

You can change the order for emphasis, but it becomes more marked:

• La junta de la puerta la limpiamos nosotros.

That sounds more emphatic, like It was the door seal that we cleaned. For a basic statement, the original order is best.

Not always. Depending on the exact object and region, other words may also be used, such as goma or burlete.

For example, for the rubber sealing strip around a door, people might sometimes say something like:

• la goma de la puerta
• el burlete de la puerta

But la junta de la puerta is perfectly understandable and correct for seal/gasket.

It is pronounced roughly leem-PYAH-mos.

A few useful notes:

• lim- sounds like leem
• pia forms one syllable: pya
• the stress is on -pia-

So the syllables are:

lim-pia-mos

And because it ends in -s, the stress naturally falls on the second-to-last syllable.