"Nosotros compramos un carro."

Translation: We are buying a car.

[VinayakGar7]

Can it be "We buy a car."?

[paulmexicodf]

grammatically yes, not the neatest of sentences though

[Jr0007]

"We buy a car" = "Nosotros compramos un carro"

"We are buying a car" = "Nosotros estamos comprando un carro"

[EugeneTiffany]

"Nosotros compramos un carro" translates "We buy a car" AND as "We are buying a car." Both.

In English we have two ways to say the same thing for whatever reason. Spanish lumps then into one way.

An "estamos" is in no way needed. It is unnecessary. Including it is like saying in English, "We are are buying a car. Double talk.

Besides, when including a verb after a verb an infinative would be used. I.e., Comprar.

[Paul562742]

exactly what I thought

[sousquark]

It can also be “We bought a car”. OK, so this is an early lesson and you may not yet have seen the past tense but it is worth knowing about 2nd person --ar verbs often being the same for present and for past..

[SeanCarr1983]

Was wondering about this very thing

[VictorWinkel]

Would spanish people say carro or coche?

[Danielconcasco]

Coche is used in Spain.

[FedericoDo599683]

Carro me parece lo que es tirado por caballos
Mi BMW es un coche

[Danielconcasco]

Both coche and carro are correct.

[NikitaVict1]

Why isnt it nosotro somos compramos un carro

[Danielconcasco]

That wouldn't really make any sense. We are we buy a car.

Compramos - we buy / we are buying / we do buy

Estamos comprando - we are buying

[DanielVasq980695]

I take it as: we bought a car.