Direct Object and Direct Object Pronouns
What is a Direct Object? A direct object is a thing or person getting the action of a verb. * Usually answers the question Example What? Whom? Carlos eats What? The food. The food is the direct object. or In English: Carlos eats the food.
Example in Spanish: Carlos come la comida. Carlos come qué? La comida La comida is the direct object.
Remember Subject Pronouns? Remember how subject pronouns are used to replace the subject? YoNosotros/Nosotras TúTú Él Ella Usted Ellos Ellas Ustedes SUBJECT PRONOUNS English Example: Samuel plays basketball. He also plays soccer. (Subject) (Subject Pronoun) Spanish Example: Samuel juega baloncesto. Él también juega fútbol. (Subject) (Subject Pronoun)
Spanish Direct Object Pronouns menos te lo la los las Direct Object Pronouns Make sure you write this stuff down ya’ll!!
Carlos come la (the) comida. = Carlos eats the food. Carlos la come. = Carlos eats it. menos te lo la los las Direct Object Pronouns Always put the direct object pronoun before the conjugated verb. (Comer was conjugated) (Notice how comida is a feminine ending word)
Exception… I want to eat the chicken. Quiero comer el pollo. I want to eat it. Quiero comerlo. *When there are two verbs, you can put the direct object pronoun after the unconjugated verb, as part of the word* (verb) Conjugated “Yo form” of Querer Non-conjugated verb. You can tell because it still ends in –er. (the direct object pronoun “lo” after the unconjugated verb, as part of the word)