Help with direct object pronouns!!

Question

If a sentence states, "Yo llevo el vestido verde y las botas marrones," What would the direct object pronoun be?

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Answer 1

Personally I would choose los=el vestido verde y las botas marrones, because once you have a masculine noun in a group, the combined group should be masculine.

I am an intermediate level learner, so it would be reasonable to await confirmation.

Thank you so much!! That's what I was thinking!! - 7788brendy, Mar 7, 2015

You obviously posted while I was writing, but I think we agree that 'los llevo' sounds more natural in Spanish... :-) - Faldaesque, Mar 7, 2015

True it does!! Thanks for your input!! I just started learning Spanish this year in 8th grade so its kind of been a struggle...... - 7788brendy, Mar 7, 2015

Answer 2

Your direct object pronouns here would replace your direct object nouns, being 'el vestido' and 'las botas', for which the direct object pronouns, respectively, are 'lo' and 'las'. In English you could say 'I wear it and them', which in Spanish I suppose would translate literally as 'lo y las llevo', but I've never heard direct object pronouns being combined in this way in Spanish with 'y'. Even in English it sounds a little contrived and unidiomatic, albeit not grammatically wrong.

You could say 'los llevo', meaning 'I wear them', referring to everything together. Or perhaps you would be better to say 'llevo eso y esas'.

I'm not native and only a beginner, so I'd be interested in other comments too...

Thanks to you too!! I was going down that path too!! - 7788brendy, Mar 7, 2015

As a footnote, 'los llevo' would sound like you're planning to wear them. If you mean you're wearing them now I'd say 'los estoy llevando' or 'estoy llevandolos'... :-) - Faldaesque, Mar 7, 2015