Indirect Object Pronouns Process
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Spanish Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
Lesson Plans by Lourdes Fernandez
Teaching Spanish indirect object pronouns is almost impossible without also addressing direct object pronouns. In the following storyboard activities, students will focus on indirect object pronouns both in isolation and with direct object pronouns.
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Process for Spanish indirect object pronouns
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- IDENTIFY THE INDIRECT OBJECT
- Indirect objects receive the direct object, or answer the question "to whom" or "for whom" the action of the verb is performed (asked after the direct object).
- Question: "For whom" did you buy a present? Answer: our mother
- EJEMPLO 1
- nuestra madre
- i.o.
- ¿Compraste un regalo para nuestra madre?
- i.o.
- a mí
- Question: "To whom" are you going to give your coffee? Answer: me
- EJEMPLO 2
- ¿Das tu café a mí?
- REPLACE THE INDIRECT OBJECT WITH AN INDIRECT OBJECT PRONOUN
- ¿Enrique, compraste un regalo para nuestra madre? --------------------------------------------------------- Enrique, did you buy a present for our mother?
- *se
- me
- le
- te
- nos
- les
- os
- ¿Das tu café a mí? -------------------------------------------- Are you going to give your coffee to me?
- *se
- me
- le
- te
- nos
- les
- os
- Indirect object pronouns can be used to replace indirect object nouns to reduce repetition. It would be like saying "to/for me/you/him/her/us/them" in English. In Spanish they must agree with the noun they are replacing.
- nuestra madre
- Yes, I bought a present FOR OUR MOTHER.
- le
- Yes, I bought a present FOR HER.
- a ti
- No, I am not going to give my coffee TO YOU.
- te
- No, I am not going to give my coffee TO YOU.
- PUT IT ALL TOGETHER
- After replacing the indirect object noun with a pronoun, be sure to place it before the conjugated verb. Here is the conversation all together.
- ¿Enrique, compraste un regalo para nuestra madre? --------------------------------------------------------- Enrique, did you buy a present for our mother?
- Place i.o. pronoun BEFORE the verb
- ¿Compraste un regalo para nuestra madre?
- le
- compré
- Sí, le compré un regalo. Le compré unas joyas.
- le
- ¿Das tu café a mí? -------------------------------------------- Are you going to give your coffee to me?
- Place i.o. pronoun BEFORE the verb
- ¿Me das tu café?
- te
- ¡No! ¡No te doy mi café!
- doy
- te
- ¿Enrique, compraste un regalo para nuestra madre?
- ¿Me das tu café a mí?
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