The use of Las in the sentence
In the following sentence why do you need to use ¨las¨
......pero no las necesita.
How do you know when to use it?
3 Answers
Here "las" is a direct object pronoun. It doesn't mean "the" in this case but it instead means them. me, te, lo, la, los and las are all d.o.p.s The DOP's purpose is to take the place of a noun (almost like a pronoun in english). To help, you could write the sentence out. Let's pretend "las" it taking the place of "las manzanas" (las can take the place of anything both feminine and plural). So the sentence would be "pero no necesita las manzanas." In english you would change the sentence from but he doesn't need the apples to but he doesn't need them. But in spanish when putting in the DOP you take out the direct object and it's article and place the DOP (in this case "las") INFRONT of the verb making the sentence pero no las necesita.
Hola, ScottDoherty:
It's me again. We have another reference page that deals with the "Direct Object Pronoun" and that is the subject of this question.
By the way, I looked at your profile page and I think in terms of your lessons progress, you are only 2 lessons short of the one that deals with this subject. I think the direct object pronoun comes around in lesson 2.3. If you want, it is found here and I don't think it would hurt to do it now. Go here ----> Direct and Indirect object pronouns.
I mentioned a Reference page for this subject and you will find it here ----> Direct Object Pronoun.
That should set you up with the information you need to deal with this immediate question.
Muchos saludos/Best regards,
Moe
the word "las" is referring to something else and is translated as them.
pero no las necesita- you dont need them
