Breakdown of Siempre nos comunicamos por chat.
siempre
always
por
for / by / through / in (during a part of the day)
comunicarse
to communicate
el chat
the chat
Questions & Answers about Siempre nos comunicamos por chat.
Why do we use por instead of en or con here?
In Spanish, por is the go-to preposition for expressing the medium, channel, or tool used to communicate. Just like you would say por teléfono (by phone) or por correo electrónico (by email), you use por chat to mean 'via chat' or 'through chat.'
What is the exact role of nos in this sentence?
It acts as a reciprocal pronoun here, meaning 'each other.' While comunicar generally means to transmit information, the pronominal verb comunicarse means to communicate with one another. So, nos comunicamos literally means 'we communicate with each other.'
Since comunicamos is both the present and simple past tense for 'we', how do we know which one it is here?
The key context clue is the word siempre (always). Because it describes an ongoing habit or routine, this is naturally understood as the present tense. If you wanted to talk about a routine in the past ('we always used to communicate'), you would need the imperfect tense instead: siempre nos comunicábamos.