No. 262 in Spanish

vamos

"Vamos" means "we go" or "let's go."

In a sentence

¡Vamos al parque para jugar fútbol!
Let's go to the park to play soccer!
In this case, 'vamos' is used as a command or suggestion in the first person plural to express 'let's go'.
Si seguimos así, vamos a ganar la carrera.
If we continue like this, we will win the race.
Here, 'vamos' is part of the construction 'vamos a' which introduces an action in the near future, equivalent to 'going to' in English.
Vamos bien con el proyecto, solo faltan algunos detalles.
We are doing well with the project; only a few details are missing.
In this sentence, 'vamos' indicates progress or the state of doing well in something, commonly used as 'we are doing'.

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