Migo/Tigo and Indirect Pronouns

Question

I just did the lesson about Indirect Pronouns (2.3) and I learned that they were "me" and "te" for 1st and 2nd person singular. I always thought they were "migo" and "tigo". Does someone want to explain the difference, or what "migo" and "tigo" are?

Answer 1

Hey PrestonCooper93, I’m going to take the liberty of assuming that you are refering to indirect object pronouns. I know it’s confusing, but…indirect means that the recipient of the action is receiving the action indirectly. For example: Juan writes me a letter. Juan is the subject of the verb write. But, what is Juan writing? He is he writing a letter. So, the letter is the direct recipient of his actions.

I am the indirect recipient of Juans action. Juan is writing the letter and sending it to me. So. In this scenario, me is the indirect object pronoun.

The Spanish singular indirect object pronouns are: (me=to me), (te=to you), (le= to him, to her, to you, to it). The plural forms are: (nos=to us), (os=to you), (les= to them, to you[Uds.])

Conmigo means: with me. Él va conmigo (he is going with me.) Contigo means: with you. Él no va contigo. (he is not going with you) Neither conmigo nor contigo are indirect object pronouns. Hope this helps. I wish you the best of luck. Viejito

¡Muy bien expuesto y para que veas que la vejez tiene sus ventajas! - 005faa61, May 25, 2012

Gracias viejito , that is going a long way to get me to understand this difficult hurdle in Spanish . Thanks mate,. - ray76, May 25, 2012

Answer 2

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