Word
Repartimos brochetas de costilla y panceta.
Meaning
We handed out skewers of rib and pork belly.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Repartimos brochetas de costilla y panceta.
y
and
de
of
la brocheta
the food skewer
la costilla
the rib
Questions & Answers about Repartimos brochetas de costilla y panceta.
Why is repartimos ambiguous? Is it present tense or past tense?
Repartimos can be either:
- present indicative: we distribute / we hand out
- preterite: we distributed / we handed out
This happens because some -ir verbs have the same nosotros form in the present and the preterite.
So by itself, Repartimos brochetas de costilla y panceta could mean either:
- We hand out rib and panceta skewers
- We handed out rib and panceta skewers
Usually, the wider context tells you which one is meant.
Why isn’t nosotros included?
Because Spanish usually drops subject pronouns when the verb ending already shows who the subject is.
- repartimos already means we
- so nosotros is not necessary
You could say Nosotros repartimos..., but that would usually add emphasis or contrast, for example:
- Nosotros repartimos las brochetas, ellos sirven las bebidas.
So the version without nosotros is completely normal.
What exactly does brochetas mean here?