Revisamos el piloto de descalcificación.

to check

Breakdown of Revisamos el piloto de descalcificación.

• el piloto de descalcificación: the descaling indicator

Questions & Answers about Revisamos el piloto de descalcificación.

Why can revisamos mean either we review/check or we reviewed/checked?

Because revisamos has the same form in two tenses:

• present indicative: we review / we check
• preterite: we reviewed / we checked

So, without context, the form is ambiguous. Spanish usually relies on context, time expressions, or the surrounding conversation to make the time clear.

For example:

• Hoy revisamos el piloto... → probably today we are checking / check
• Ayer revisamos el piloto... → clearly yesterday we checked

This is normal with many -ar verbs in the nosotros form.

Is revisar the same as English to revise?

Not exactly. This is a very common learner question because they look similar.

In Spanish, revisar usually means:

• to check
• to inspect
• to look over
• sometimes to review

It does not usually mean to rewrite and improve a text in the English sense of revise.

So in a technical sentence like this, revisamos is more likely understood as we checked / inspected / looked over.

What does el piloto mean here? Is it a person?