spanish: can you not just write levantamos temprano instead or nos levantamos?

Question

meaning we get up early. since it has the ending in the right form can you just not use nos? or does it not work like this?

i've only been learning spanish for a couple of weeks so i'm not too good......

what if it was visto....would i have to say me visto? does this rule apply to all?

OH! i get it now! thanks

Answer 1

You DO need the "nos."

Levantamos without "nos" means that you lifted someTHING up, instead of getting (yourselves) up. The object ("nos") makes all the difference.

Answer 2

The correct way is "Nos levantamos temprano" because if you just write "levantamos temprano" I would have a question "who?" (le/lo/la:ella/él; les/las/los:ellos/ellas)

"nos" help us undesrtand who are we talking about.

LOL you should help me improve my English, and I can help you with your Spanish, not well in grammar but real Spanish so it is my native language..

Answer 3

The first post is correct. The nos is the reflexive pronoun "ourselves" NOT the equivalent of "we". You are correct that nosotros is not necessary b/c the ending is there. But nos serves a different purpose.

Answer 4

NO, you can say LEVANTEMONOS TEMPRANO, meaning lets wake up early but in a past tense the NOS is necessary.

Answer 5

Te correct way is NOS LEVANTAMOS TEMPRANO

Answer 6

No. The verb levantar means lifting (something) up. You would need the verb levantarse (with the reflexive pronoun) in this case I believe. Getting YOURSELF up is reflexive

Answer 7

You need the "nos" because it is reflexive.

Answer 8

you have to put nos, its the spanish equivilent for we