Conocer with direct/indirect object pronouns, transitive or intransitive verb?
My question is about using a direct or indirect object pronoun with the verb conocer. According to the dictionary, conocer is a transitive verb which can take a direct object. For example, I know/am familiar with it(the city), la conozco. I was wondering if anyone knows why someone would say, le conocemos when they are trying to say we know/are familiar with him? I would think that the correct grammar would be, lo conocemos, as the direct object of that sentence is him. Is conocer a verb that becomes instransitive when speaking about people or is the leismo thing coming back to bite me once again. Thanks for any help on this one!
2 Answers
If you're going to talk about a woman is, we know it and if you are going to talk about a man we know, Jan this case if the city is we know it.
Loísmo was recently referenced to. Keep in mind the majority of the spanish world don't use those rules. "Le conocemos" would be a normal way of speaking, as they probably already refered to him previously in the conversation. Otherwise it would be Le conocemos a él.
