1. Direct Object Pronouns

2. Direct objects
Answer the question…?

3. Who?
What?

4. I bought the book.
What did I buy?
The book = direct object

5. We saw your friends.
Who did we see?
Friends = direct object

6. Pronoun
A direct object pronoun shortens the direct object to avoid repition.
The book – it
Your friends - them

7. Direct object pronouns in Spanish
Lo – him/you (formal)/it
Los – them/y’all (ustedes)/those things
La – her/you (formal)/it
Las – them/y’all (ustedes)/those things

8. Ejemplos
Yo compré el libro.

9. El libro = direct object
What’s the pronoun for el libro?

10. El libro = lo
Yo lo compré.

11. Vimos tus amigos

12. Who did we see?
Tus amigos = direct object
What’s the pronoun?

13. Tus amigos = los
Los vimos.

14. Where do they go?
Put the direct object pronoun directly before the conjugated verb:
¿Tu hablaste con la profesora?
Sí, la hablé.

15. Or… Attached to an infinitive form (unconjugated) of the verb.
¿Vais a comprar el champú?
No, no vamos a cómprarlo. OR
No, no lo vamos a comprar.