Transcript indirect object pronouns (IOP)

Indirect Object Pronouns
What is the indirect
object?
The indirect object is for whom or to whom the object is for.
It answers the questions ¿para quién? o ¿a quién?
Yo compro el boleto para Mario. I buy the tickets for Mario.
La auxiliar de vuelo da el refresco a Laura. The flight attendant gave
a soft drink to Laura.
When do I use
indirect object
pronouns?
You use indirect object pronouns (I.O.P.) when you don’t want to
keep repeating the indirect object noun.
s.
What are the I.O.P.?
p.
me (to me)
te (to you)
nos (to us)
os (to you)
le (to him/her; les (to them;
to you; to it)
to you)
práctica:
a mí
a José
me
le
a los amigos
les
a Gabriel y a mí
nos
a Paco y a ti
les
Indirect Object Pronouns
Where are the
I.O.P. placed?
Ejemplos:
I.O.P. are always placed before conjugated verbs
* or attached to the end of the infinitives and –ndo forms
when there is more than one verb.
Yo le
compro boletos para Mario.
I buy tickets for Mario.
him.
La auxiliar de vuelo sirve el
refresco a Laura.
(The flight attendant serves Laura
the soft drink.)
La auxiliar de vuelo le sirve el
refresco.
(The flight attendant serves her
the soft drink.)
* La auxiliar de vuelo va a servir el refresco a Laura.
(The flight attendant is going to serve Laura the soft drink.)
* La auxiliar de vuelo le va a
servir el refresco.
* La auxiliar de vuelo va a
servirle el refresco.
(The flight attendant is going to serve her the soft drink.)