"Yo te mando tarjetas."

Question

"Yo te mando tarjetas."

The translator says, "I command you cards." But I know that isn't right. Is it, instead:

"I sent you cards"?

Then, again, I have to rewrite using double object pronouns. I have a quiz on Thursday, and I am worried I am going to fail because I just don't get this.

Susana

Answer 1

"Yo te lo envió,"

Ok, are we still talking about letters?

Yo te las mando/envío.

The best practice I have on this topic is this set of flahscards, you have to substitute the nouns for pronoun, just what you are looking for

nouns and pronouns

Obviously, you are not supposed to do the listening, the English part is the one that would sound completely off

No me pude resistir... - gone, Mar 2, 2011

Answer 2

OK, I forget that we have to write it differently in Spanish. I now have:

"Yo te lo envió," which translates, "I sent it." Am I getting warm? Or am I cold and near freezing to death? I am stressing, and I get silly when I stress.

Lo siento.

Yo te lo envié. Look at the conjugation of the verb enviar in the preterit. - gone, Mar 1, 2011

Answer 3

Yo te lo mando a ti (te means to you) (lo means it).

If you say me lo mando a ti it means I send it to you me, which does not make sense.

Answer 4

So, to reword it, using double object pronouns, I could write:

Yo me lo mando a tí (me lo being the double object pronouns)?

No, it would be Te lo mando a ti. (ti has no tilde) - 0074b507, Mar 1, 2011

Answer 5

mandar or enviar mean to send.

mandar can also mean to order around or to command, which is not your example's context.

In your case it means "I send you cards".