Questions & Answers about Revisamos la pegatina de la ITV.
What form is revisamos?
Revisamos is the first-person plural form of revisar.
It can mean:
- we check / we inspect / we review in the present tense
- we checked / we inspected / we reviewed in the preterite as well
So on its own, revisamos is ambiguous in writing. Context tells you which meaning is intended.
- Ahora revisamos la pegatina = Now we check the sticker
- Ayer revisamos la pegatina = Yesterday we checked the sticker
Why doesn’t Spanish use a word for we here?
Because Spanish often drops subject pronouns when the verb already shows who is doing the action.
In revisamos, the ending -amos already tells you the subject is we.
So:
- Revisamos la pegatina de la ITV = normal and natural
- Nosotros revisamos la pegatina de la ITV = also possible, but usually only if you want emphasis, contrast, or clarity
- Nosotros revisamos la pegatina, no ellos = We checked the sticker, not them
Does revisamos mean exactly we revise?
What does pegatina mean exactly?
Pegatina usually means a sticker, decal, or adhesive label.
In Spain, with cars, la pegatina de la ITV usually refers to the official sticker connected with the vehicle inspection.
So this is not just any random sticker. It suggests a specific official one.
Why is it la pegatina and not el pegatina?
What does de la ITV mean here?
Here, de links pegatina to ITV and means something like:
- of the ITV
- from the ITV
- for the ITV
- more naturally in English, the ITV sticker or the vehicle-inspection sticker
So la pegatina de la ITV is a noun phrase meaning the sticker associated with the ITV inspection.
This is very common in Spanish: noun + de + noun.
Examples:
- la puerta de la casa = the door of the house
- el libro de María = María’s book
- la pegatina de la ITV = the ITV sticker
What is ITV in Spain?
In Spain, ITV stands for Inspección Técnica de Vehículos.
It is the official vehicle roadworthiness inspection, similar to a technical inspection or roadworthiness test.
That is why la pegatina de la ITV is something very specifically Spanish: it refers to the sticker showing the car has passed, or is linked to, that inspection.
Why is it la ITV if ITV is an abbreviation?
Because abbreviations in Spanish often keep the article of the full expression they represent.
ITV stands for Inspección Técnica de Vehículos.
The main noun there is inspección, which is feminine, so Spanish says:
- la ITV
This is very normal with abbreviations.
- la ONU because organización is feminine
- el DNI because documento is masculine
- la ITV because inspección is feminine
How do you pronounce ITV in Spanish?
In Spain, it is normally pronounced letter by letter:
- i-te-uve
So la ITV is said something like la i-te-uve.
It is not usually pronounced like an English word.
Could I say inspeccionamos instead of revisamos?
Sometimes, but the nuance changes a bit.
- revisamos = we checked / looked over / inspected
- inspeccionamos = we inspected
Inspeccionamos sounds more formal or more specifically like carrying out an inspection.
Revisamos is broader and often more natural in everyday speech.
So in this sentence, revisamos sounds very normal if you mean you checked the sticker.
Could Spanish also say la pegatina ITV without de la?
Sometimes Spanish allows a noun directly after another noun, especially in labels or informal naming, but la pegatina de la ITV is the more standard and natural full expression here.
Why?
Because Spanish often prefers a de structure where English might just put one noun before another.
Compare:
- English: the ITV sticker
- Spanish: la pegatina de la ITV
So for a learner, de la is the safest and most natural choice.
Is the word order special here?
No, this is very normal Spanish word order:
- Revisamos = verb
- la pegatina de la ITV = direct object
Spanish often allows flexibility, but this sentence uses a very standard pattern:
verb + object
So it sounds neutral and natural.
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