Answer the question with Indirect Object Pronoun and the information in parentheses.

Question

I need help with my homework. I've tried several answers and none have worked.

The question is ¿Quién le prometio a Diego la gaseosa? (Tú)

I tried... Tú te prometió a Diego la gaseosa. Tú le prometió a Diego la gaseosa. Me prometió a Diego la gaseosa.

I know I'm trying to answer the question Who promised Diego a soda and the answer should be You promised Diego a soda or I promised Diego a soda (not sure what the teacher wants) but I tried it both ways and can't figure it out. What am I doing wrong.

I got several correct in the homework but this one and another one that has nosotros in the parentheses I can't figure out.

Welcome to SpanishDict. What did your instructor say? You need to ask them to explain it. We don't do homework here, but someone may help you to understand. - rac1, Apr 26, 2016

I'm not asking for the answer just to understand what I'm doing wrong. - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

Answer 1

First:

Yo prometi. ->I promised

Tú prometiste-> You promised..

See the conjugation table for the rest.

Second:

To whom " a Diego " so Diego is the indirect object.

You can say:

Yo prometí a Diego-> I promised Diego

Tú prometiste a Diego-> you promised Diego.

In Spanish even redundant indirect object pronoun is very idiomatic, sometimes mandatory, and use to be added .

in this sentence this pronoun must be referred to "Diego"

For he , she or it -> le

For

The exercise result must be using you (tú)

So the correct way would be:

Tú __ _________ a Diego la gaseosa

So Tu le promestiste a Diego la gaseosa. Is that right? I think that's the only one I haven't tried - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

prometiste i meant - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

Yes if the exercise marks (tu) as the response. Sorry for my English I hope you understand it - 000a35ff, Apr 26, 2016

Yes it does mark tu as the response. Thanks - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

Answer 2

Hi.

I can't read your teacher's mind, but I have some guesses what might be going on.

Tú te prometió a Diego la gaseosa is simply wrong, because it uses the incorrect indirect object pronoun. Me prometió a Diego la gaseosa is wrong for the same reason. Do you see why? The soda is promised to him, not to you or to me.

Tú le prometió a Diego la gaseosa strikes me as the right idea. I'm guessing that your "error" (which I don't consider to be an error) has to do with how unnatural the answer sounds. In English, if someone asks, "Who promised the soda to Diego?" the answer is likely "You promised it to him," if not something even simpler like "You did." Try answers like "You promised it (to him)" -- don't mention Diego, and (possibly) don't mention the soda either -- and see where that gets you.

Good luck!

Edit

Oh my, I feel foolish. I wrote my answer before my morning coffee and missed something very obvious.

What's the preterite conjugation of prometer?
yo prometí
tú ...

Yes I agree with taking out the extras becasue it sounds weird with the diego and soda in it, but if I follow the pattern on the answers that I got correct like Quienes nos leyeron los libros (Los alumnos) - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

Los alumnos nos leyyeron los libros.....it has all the extra info in the "correct" answer - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

Please see my edit. - jtaniel, Apr 26, 2016

I'm sorry yuor post was not edited when I started responding - 000a35ff, Apr 26, 2016

thank you basically i was forgetting to conjugate the verb correctly in my answer - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

astotxua, you have nothing to be sorry for! - jtaniel, Apr 26, 2016

Answer 3

So for this one ¿Quiénes le dieron a la familia las entradas? (Julio y yo)

It would be

Julio y yo le dábamos a la familia las entradas?

Yes . - 000a35ff, Apr 26, 2016

But the verb tense is not the correct one. Yo di tu diste........... - 000a35ff, Apr 26, 2016

Julio y yo is marked as the response for this one so the verb should be dabamos correct? I wouldn't use diste for Julio y yo....at least I don't think - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

Dieron is preterit imperfect simple acordinng with this tense the conjugation for us is not dabamos. Is dimos - 000a35ff, Apr 26, 2016

It happened one time . You and julio didn't use to guive tickets to the family. - 000a35ff, Apr 26, 2016

You and Julio gave the family tickets once - 000a35ff, Apr 26, 2016

Oh oops that's what I meant to use I was looking at the wrong conjugation chart - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

So Julio y yo le dimos a la familia las entradas. - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

;) - 000a35ff, Apr 26, 2016

Take on mind tha family works as an entity in Spanish and is used in singular, but if you are referring to the members of a family ., the indirect pronoun objet wouldn't be "le" it would be ¿¿¿ - 000a35ff, Apr 26, 2016

les ? - kannfeight, Apr 26, 2016

;) - 000a35ff, Apr 26, 2016

Answer 4

¿Quién le prometio a Diego la gaseosa? (Tú)

Yo le prometí la gaseosa

Yo se la prometí