2 questions about Indirect Object Pronouns

Question

Hola Amigos, tengo una pregunta;

If I get lesson 2.3 correctly, "Voy a dar las flores a mi abuela en el hospital." is incorrect because of the rule; "if there is an indirect object, you always have to include an indirect object pronoun" So it would become: "Le voy a dar las flores a mi abuela en el hospital" ? Can someone confirm this?

Another rule was; "if both the indirect and the direct object pronouns start with an "L", change the 1st "L" to "S" ". But there was no example of plurial form. So does "Juan da los globos a sus novios" becomes "Juan ses los da." ?

Gracias P.S. if I made other mistakes in my made up examples please let me know, I'm just trying to practice a little

Answer 1

"Le voy a dar las flores a mi abuela en el hospital" ?

Hi, Stevi. Great questions!

I think you right on the first one. I would use the "le" at the beginning of the sentence. Let's wait and see what other forum members have to say.

So does "Juan da los globos a sus novios" becomes "Juan ses los da." ?

No, there is no plural word "ses" as a pronoun. You use "se" for both singular and plural.

Check out this lesson here.

great answer - 00494d19, Sep 1, 2010

thx, indeed I found on that page that, les los = se los :) - Stevixo, Sep 1, 2010