Percibimos un zumbido durante la audiometría.

during

Breakdown of Percibimos un zumbido durante la audiometría.

• la audiometría: the hearing test
• el zumbido: the buzzing sound
• percibir: to perceive

Questions & Answers about Percibimos un zumbido durante la audiometría.

What does percibimos mean grammatically?

Percibimos is the 1st person plural form of percibir, so it means we perceive, we notice, or we detect.

• percibir = to perceive / to notice / to detect
• percibimos = we perceive / we notice / we detect

In this sentence, it refers to us as a group experiencing or detecting the sound.

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Is percibimos present tense or past tense?

It can be either, depending on context.

For many -ir verbs in Spanish, the nosotros form is the same in:

• present indicative: percibimos = we perceive
• preterite: percibimos = we perceived

So on its own, Percibimos un zumbido durante la audiometría could mean either:

• We perceive a buzzing during the audiometry test
• We perceived a buzzing during the audiometry test

Usually the wider context tells you which one is intended.

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Why is un zumbido used instead of just zumbido?