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Practice with Direct and Indirect object pronouns – for beginners Week 1

Practice with Direct and Indirect object pronouns – for beginners Week 1

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One of the most challenging things for new Spanish learners is to grasp the use of direct and indirect object pronouns. If you would like a review of this subject, please check Paralee’s lesson by clicking here.

To give you some practice I’ll be posting two or three sentences to translate every week. I’ll give you the original sentence in English. You should translate the sentence into Spanish, then rewrite it replacing the direct and indirect objects (if there are any) with pronouns.

Example question: I throw the ball to William.

Responses: Le tiro la pelota a Guillermo.
Se la tiro.

This week’s questions:

Susan prepared breakfast for John.

Mary bought a blue shirt for you.

We took the coat to the cleaners

Remember not to look at other people's answers until you have posted your own. wink

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updated SEP 29, 2010
edited by CalvoViejo
posted by CalvoViejo
Excellent...I definitely need all the practice I can get! Thanks! - mar959, MAR 27, 2010
good job, calvo, I take it you are moderating this thread yourself? thanks - 00494d19, MAR 27, 2010
categroy - 00494d19, MAR 27, 2010
great idea, you get my vote. - Maria-Russell, MAR 27, 2010
Gracias--your timing is impeccable; I so need this review! - Aamos, MAR 27, 2010
Great but so far all examples are of the indirect object pronoun - how about "he hit me", "I saw him" etc? - geofc, MAY 3, 2010

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Susan prepared breakfast for John. Se lo preparó.

Mary bought a blue shirt for you. Te la compró.

We took the coat to the cleaners Se lo tomamos.

Chocobo, You're doing fine here. I was expecting two sentences in response to each question (the first a translation of the question, the second eliminating the nouns), but you seem to have the concept. Tomar is probably not the best verb for the last question. A better verb would be llevar which means "to take" as in transporting something. grin smile

updated ABR 4, 2010
edited by CalvoViejo
posted by fatchocobo
Thanks for doing this. I didn't realize I needed to practice this until I tried it and had a bit of trouble remembering how to do it. - fatchocobo, ABR 4, 2010
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Me, too. I need the practice.

Susan prepared breakfast for John. Susan preparó el desayuno para John. Susan se lo preparó. Mary brought a blue shirt for you. Mary te compró una camisa azul para tí. Mary te la compró. We took the coat to the cleaners. Nostotros le llevamos el abrigo al tintorería. Se lo llevamos.

Sanlee, I think you're trying to put me out of business. This is perfect. grin LOL smile

updated ABR 3, 2010
edited by CalvoViejo
posted by sanlee
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Susan prepared breakfast for John.

Mary bought a blue shirt for you.

We took the coat to the cleaners

Susan le preparó desayuno para Juan. Susan se lo preparó.

Mary te compró una camisa azul para tu. Susan te la compró.

Le tomamos un abrigo al lavandoria. Nosotros se le tomamos.

Mary te compró una camisa azul para ti. In the last example, the correct verb is llevar (Le llevamos ... a la lavandería). Be careful of your spelling. Also, you don't need the "nosotros". It's understood because of the verb. Your Direct and Indirect Object pronouns are perfect. LOL smile

updated ABR 1, 2010
edited by CalvoViejo
posted by abuelita
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I am sorry to have to close this thread, Calvo Viejo seems to be absent and is not correcting the posts, as soon as he gets back , if so, I will open the thread againgrin

updated SEP 29, 2010
posted by 00494d19
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  1. Susan prepared breakfast for John.

Susan le preparó el desayuno para John. Se lo preparó.

  1. Mary bought a blue shirt for you.

Mary te compró una camisa azul para ti. Te la compró.

  1. We took the coat to the cleaners.

Le llevamos el abrigo a la tintotería. Se lo llevamos.

updated SEP 29, 2010
posted by melodyma
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1) Susan prepared breakfast for John.

2) Mary bought a blue shirt for you.

3) We took the coat to the cleaners

1) Susan le preparo la desayuno a John. Susan se la prepara.

2) Mary te compró una camisa azul para ti Mary te la compró

3) Llevamos el abrigo a los limpiadores se los llevamos

(i know i need a tidle over the o in preparo but couldn't put it there for some reason) anyhow i need lots of work smile lol

updated AGO 26, 2010
posted by gerchie13
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Susan preparó el desayuno para John. Susan se lo preparó.

Mary compró una camisa azul para tí. Mary te la compró.

Nosotros tomamos el abrigo a las tintorerías. Nosotros se lo tomamos.

updated AGO 3, 2010
posted by bnjmcleod
I forgot to include the indirect object pronoun in the simple translations. This is great practice - thank you!! - bnjmcleod, AGO 3, 2010
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GREAT idea!

Susan prepared breakfast for John.

Susan se preparó el desayuno para John.

Se lo preparó.

Mary bought a blue shirt for you.

Mary te compró una camisa azul para tí.

Te la compró.

We took the coat to the cleaners

Les llevamos el abrigo a la lavandería.

Se lo llevamos.

This has already been helpful for me. I tend to leave out the indirect pronoun; I am always tempted to say "Mary compró la camisa para John." without any indirect object.

updated JUN 7, 2010
posted by Lrtward
Oops... after reading the other responses I see a couple of errors already. This is a great exercise. - Lrtward, JUN 7, 2010
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Susan preparó el desayuno para Juan. Susan se lo preparó.

Maria compró una camisa azul para tu. Maria te la compró.

Nosotros llevamos el abrigo a la tintoreía. Nosotros se lo llevamos.

updated JUN 7, 2010
posted by MoeHarrison
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Susan se lo preparó Mary te la compró se lo tomamos

updated JUN 1, 2010
posted by mahmoudatiya
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