l le direct and indirect object pronouns in Spanish they can be tricky but I promise you that by the end of this video you will know how to confidently use them so you can impress people with your Spanish skills if you'd like to learn more Spanishly make sure to check out my website.com let's get into the video so object pronouns what are they these are simply little words that replace bigger words for example instead of having to always say the book or the computer we can just say it or instead of having to say Bob or Jennifer we can just say him or her so we have two kinds of object pronouns direct and indirect object pronouns now direct object pronouns are directly affected by the verb of the sentence whereas indirect object pronouns are indirectly affected by the verb of the sentence for our direct object pronouns we have me t the law and la nos loss and lass now here's a pro tip for you whenever you hear the word law we are almost always talking about an object not a person now there are situations in which we are talking about a person however 90% of the time when you hear the word l it just means it and we are talking about an object and 95% of the time when you hear the word le or less that is referring to people okay these are really important to remember if you can just remember those as a general rule of thumb is going to help you so much during conversations l is for an object le and le are for people now it's not always the case however 95% of the time it is so let's take a look at direct object pronouns for example we have jamaron a me mama they called my mom or la jamaron la j jamaron la representing her now when it comes to object pronouns we always put them before the conjugated verb in the sentence that is very important so you cannot say jamaron la you have to say la jamar now we have a few exceptions to this rule however just remember the indirect or direct object pronoun always goes before the conjugated verb now the reason that in this sentence we'll be using la instead of le is because mima is the only person or object in the sentence the thing is is that in Spanish many times we have many different objects in one sentence which is why I say law and la typically represent inanimate objects whereas le and less represent people however in this specific example because mima is the only object in the sentence we can use la because she is directly receiving the action of the verbaron now let's take a look at an example with objects la is the verb meaning to throw and la is the direct object because it is directly receiving the action of okay how about the sentence lenos len okay the books are directly receiving the action of reading so they are the direct object of the sentence therefore we turn them into the direct direct object pronoun which would be lo according to our rule remember it's me la lo and las study those charts those are seriously so helpful amazing now you know how to use direct object pronouns congratulations let's take a look at indirect object pronouns now our indirect object pronouns are me the le nos and less now notice how the in the direct and indirect object pronouns me t and nos are all the same however notice how le and less have no gender so le can refer to a masculine thing or a feminine thing so that is why when we use indirect object pronouns context is very very important like I said study these charts they're going to help you so much okay so an example Gabrielle Gabrielle okay so is the verb and una rosa is the direct object of the sentence because it's directly receiving the verb of compra however Anita is being indirectly affected by this and therefore she is considered the indirect object now remember we can turn anita into an indirect object pronoun so that I don't have to keep saying anita anita anita i can just say le so I don't have to say Gabriel compro una roa anita i can just say Gabrielle le compro Gabrielle bought her a rose now like I said when we're using a word like le or less we often times need extra context because if you don't have any context you can't just randomly use le because we won't know who you're talking about that's why we can say something like a anita now we have this idea in Spanish of the redundant le the idea here is that we put on the le even when we add the aanita to the end the idea here is that we can cut off the aita and we can just say Gabriel lear now you may have seen that really tiny word say which can be very confusing because not only is it used as an indirect object pronoun but it can be used as other things like the passive and impersonal say but here's the idea in Spanish you cannot have leelo in stitch that's what I always tell my students you cannot have leelo in stitch so you cannot have lelo or leas or lelo you cannot have that in Spanish le and le become say when we combine them with another direct object pronoun so in this example Gabrielle le compro now we can turn una roa into the direct object pronoun which would be la so we would have gabriel se laro so he bought it for her so notice now we've taken Anita and turned her into a pronoun and we've taken unarosa and also turned it into a pronoun this can get a little bit hairy and it's quite confusing for many students so don't worry if you're struggling with this i recommend that if you're if you're having issues with this try to just use one object pronoun and then a regular object so in this case Gabrielle Le compro una rosa we don't need to turn una roa into an object pronoun however that can really shorten up our sentence another example would be a pelan now once again I don't need to add aan on the end i'm just doing it to provide extra context because if I had just said then if you don't have any extra context you might not know who I'm talking about you might think I'm saying him or her or it that is why context is so important when using object pronouns okay so this is going to be a little bit difficult but how would we put the pronouns together something I forgot to mention is that we always put the indirect object pronoun before the direct object pronoun okay so you cannot have lle for example okay so in this sense if we want to combine the pronouns so now we have two pronouns instead of just Samuel leo la now we would have Samuel seo remember you cannot have leo and stitch samuel seo it's a weird rule in Spanish but the only reason we do this is because sometimes it sounds a bit clunky to say lelo for example lelo leo leas things like that it sounds more clean to just say for example Okay so now let's take a deeper look at direct and indirect object pronouns being used together so remember they are the exact same when it comes to me t and nos where they change is in the lola loas and the le and less now do you remember how I said that we always need to put the direct or indirect object pronouns before conjugated verbs in sentences well that is always true however we also have a few other options pizza we can also say una pizza so when it comes to the gerand or the idea of the ing the present progressive we can attach our object pronoun onto the end so you can do either or now is there a difference no they both mean the same thing however do not put the object pronoun before the conjugated verb and attach it it's either one or the other so or Okay so remember how we can use object pronouns together we could also say okay me representing me and la representing la pizza i know this is a lot of information but I promise you that if you really study these and get these down your Spanish is going to be massively upgraded another situation in which we don't need to put the object pronoun before the conjugated verb is with commands now commands are probably the only exception to this control okay so I'm saying give me now in Mexico it's very common that we put the object pronoun before and we would say something like meda meda control now the reason we do this is because it sounds even more polite it's an even more polite way to command someone to do something it's kind of more passive however when it comes to commands the reason that we attach the object pronoun onto the end of the command is because if I were to just say control out of context it might sound like I'm saying he gives me he gives me the remote control or she gives me the remote control which is why with commands we'll attach the object pronouns onto the command so we can say control or we can turn control into law because I don't want to have to keep saying it's kind of a lot so I can just say damo and you may have heard a Mexican abolita say to you commanding you and those are just object pronouns one final example here is we can attach the object pronoun onto the infinitive verb which in this case would be desir however if you are not sure the easiest rule of thumb is to always attach the object pronouns before the conjugated verb always place them before the conjugated verb so in this case we could say and that also works now we can play with these as well we can say or well I know this has been a lot of information feel free to review this video and I have a lot more resources on how to use object pronouns on my website.com so check it out if you have any other questions feel free to leave me a comment on this video if you feel like I skipped over something please let me know you can also send me an email at supportpnnate.com my Wendia as