definitive articles
I have a test and don't know how to answer the question.
substitute words with lo, los, la, las, le or les.
1. Juan se quita (words el saco)
2. Martin y Jose ven el programa. (words el programa)
3. Oigo el tocadiscos. (words el tocadiscos)
4. Carlos no trae los libros a su maestro. (words a su maestro)
5. Marisa trae sus paple a sus amigas. (words a sus amigas)
6. No puedo recorder el numero (words are el number)
7. Conozco a adelita. (words a Adelita)
8. Quita ls comida por favor. (words la comida)
9. vamos a repetir las frases otra vez. (words las frasas)
10. No escribimos nir guna carta a nuestros hermanos. (words a nuestros hermanos)
I know the singular and plural of the example words. But, I can't find anything to help
as to which articles to use in the sentences.
Any help will be appreciated.
KH
2 Answers
Welcome to the forum
Forum rules do not let us give you the answers, but we can provide some help.
It would seem not to be completely a beginner's exercise since you have to distinguish which are direct and which indirect objects.
Your first step is to detemine for each sentence whether the object being replaced is direct or indirect.
In the English sentence I gave it to her- the direct object is "it"- what the verb is directly referring to- it is what I gave. The indirect is her- not what is "directly" being given, but still related "indirectly".
If you determine the object is direct:
lo - masculine singular, la- feminine singular, los- masculine plural, las- feminine plural,
If it is indirect:
le- singular, les- plural
pronouns go before a conjugated verb (although they can be attaced to end of an infinitive, positive imperative or gerundio).
If there are two in a row that start with l, the first becomes se- whether it is le or les
The order is RID-- reflexive indirect direct.
So my example sentence
se lo di = I gave it (direct, unspecified- lo) to her (indirect, le, becomes se)
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