Breakdown of Revisamos la vía pública en que trabaja el equipo de rodaje.
trabajar
to work
en que
in which
revisar
to check
la vía pública
the public thoroughfare
Questions & Answers about Revisamos la vía pública en que trabaja el equipo de rodaje.
Why is revisamos ambiguous? Does it mean we review/check or we reviewed/checked?
Yes. Revisamos can be either:
- present tense: we check / we inspect
- preterite: we checked / we inspected
That happens because the nosotros form of some -ar verbs is identical in the present and the preterite.
So by itself, Revisamos la vía pública... could mean either:
- We inspect the public road/street...
- We inspected the public road/street...
You usually know which one is meant from the wider context, time words, or the surrounding sentences.
What does vía pública mean, and why not just calle?
Vía pública is a more formal or administrative expression than calle.
It usually refers to the public thoroughfare / public street / public roadway, and sometimes more broadly to public space open to traffic or public use.
Compare:
- calle = ordinary everyday word for street
- vía pública = more official, legal, technical, or municipal-sounding term
So this sentence sounds a bit more formal than if it used calle.
What does en que mean here?