Those darn little words still mess me up so it's always good to review. Now that the Desafío is over I'm still going to blog, but I can keep them short and sweet just for my ownself. This is an example I pulled from Spanish Class with Jackie.
¿Qué hicieron ayer los monos en el parque zoológico?
Ayer los monos les tiraron la comida a los turistas!
- Direct Object: la comida, which receives the action of the verb. Answers the question, What did the monkeys throw? the food
- Indirect Object: les / los turistas, the recipients of the action of the verb. Answers the question, At/to whom did the monkeys throw the food? at the tourists.
les is the indirect pronoun for 3rd person plural, referring to the tourists, who received the action, that is, the throwing of the food by the monkeys
Simple right? On paper it is, using it in conversation is a different story.
And I end with a video of Pocoyo bailando el mono de alambre. I know it's a kid's show, but I still enjoy it. Still a kid at heart I guess?
Where I always mess up is which of these pronouns are direct and which are indirect..
ReplyDeleteI know the difference, but ..
So I now think of Copacabana…Barry Manilio
Lola , she was a show girl …lo and la are the direct objects
Le (les) …The indirect object
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKR2n-G-wdM