¿Hacemos las paces?

shall we make up?

Questions & Answers about ¿Hacemos las paces?

Why is it hacemos and not an imperative like haz or hagamos?

In Spanish, the present tense is often used to make a suggestion in a very natural, conversational way.

So ¿Hacemos las paces? literally looks like Do we make peace?, but it functions like:

• Shall we make up?
• How about we make peace?

You could also hear:

• Hagamos las paces = Let’s make peace / let’s make up
  This is more direct.
• ¿Hacemos las paces? = softer, more like a proposal.

So hacemos here is not just a plain statement of fact; it is being used to suggest something.

What tense and person is hacemos?

Hacemos is:

• present tense
• first person plural
• from the verb hacer = to do / to make

So grammatically it means we do / we make.

In this sentence, we is understood as you and I.

Why is it hacer las paces and not hacer la paz?