Direct Indirect Pronouns RID Flashcards
𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬
me (me) 𝐧𝐨𝐬 (us)
te (you) 𝐨𝐬 (you pl)
le (him; her; you; it ) 𝐥𝐞𝐬 (them; you)
Se
To avoid alliteration, when “le” or “les” as an indirect-object pronoun precedes the direct-object pronoun “lo”, “los”, “la” or “las”, “se” is used instead of “le” or “les”.
Quiero dárselo. (I want to give it to him/her/you/.) Se lo daré. (I will give it to him/her/you.)
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬
me (me) 𝐧𝐨𝐬 (us)
te (you) 𝐨𝐬 (you pl)
lo/la : (him; her; you; it ) 𝐥𝐨𝐬/𝐥𝐚𝐬 (them;you)
In a sentence with an indirect object there is always a direct object, either stated or implied.
When direct and indirect object pronouns are used together in a sentence, the indirect object pronoun comes before the direct object pronoun.
Marcos nos trajo la comida a nosotros.
Marcos brought the food to us.
Marcos nos la trajo.
Marcos brought it to us.
My mom is buying me a pizza.
Mi madre está comprándome una pizza.
My mom is buying it for me.
Mi madre está comprándomela.
Give me the remote control.
Dame el control remoto.
.Give it to me. Give - to me - it
Dámelo
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐯𝐬. 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐯𝐬. 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬
Direct object pronouns are those pronouns that represent the nouns directly acted upon by the verb
Indirect object pronouns stand for the noun that is the recipient of the verb’s action.
In both English and Spanish, a verb may have no object (e.g., “I live,” vivo), a direct object only (e.g., “I killed the fly,” maté la mosca),
or both direct and indirect objects (e.g., “I gave her the ring,” le di el anillo, where le or “her” is the indirect object and anillo or “ring” the direct object).
The construction of an indirect object without a direct object isn’t used in English, but it can be done in Spanish (e.g., le es difícil, “it is difficult for him,” where le is the indirect object).
me es dificil = it’s hard for me
Another way of looking at indirect objects in Spanish is that they could be replaced by “a + prepositional pronoun” or sometimes “para + prepositional pronoun.” In the example sentence, we could say di el anillo a ella and mean the same thing (just as we could say in English, “I gave the ring to her”).
In Spanish, unlike English, a noun can’t be an indirect object; it must be used as the object of a preposition. For example, we could say “I gave Sally the ring” in English, while “Sally” is the indirect object, but in Spanish the preposition “a” is needed, le di el anillo a Sally. As in this example, it is common, although not strictly required, to include both the pronoun “le” and the named indirect object.
In English, we use the same pronouns for both direct and indirect objects. In Spanish, both types of object pronouns are the same except in the third person. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 “𝐥𝐨” (𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 “𝐥𝐚” (𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞), 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 “𝐥𝐨𝐬” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 “𝐥𝐚𝐬”.
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞” “𝐥𝐞” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 “𝐥𝐞𝐬” 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲. 𝐍𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫.
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐯𝐬
. 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬
Ella me ve (she sees me).
Ella me dio el dinero (she gave me the money).
Ella te ve.
Ella te dio el dinero.
Ella lo/la ve. (she sees “him”, “her”, “it”)
Ella 𝐥𝐞 dio el dinero. (she gives “him”, “her”, “it”)
