Is estoy and voy an Indirect object?
I am so confused, and really fustrated with my homework and I was just wondering if anyone out there knows if these sentences are correct, they want me to give which ones are the indirect object nouns and which is the direct object nouns. I've done most of them but the last two are different because I've been reading and I'm not sure if Estoy and Voy are the indirect, I'm mostly choosing them as indirect because the indirect object noun is supposed to come before the direct object noun right?
So here are the sentences I have done.
Estoy Hamándolos ahora. I chose estoy as the indirect and los at the end of Hamándolos as the direct, is this correct?
Voy a decirte el secreto. I chose Voy as the indirect and te at the end of decirte as the direct, I hope this is right also.
I'm not asking anyone to do my homework for me, I just need someone to tell me if I'm on the right track or if I missed something. Thanks for reading, and hopefully someone out there is better at this than I am(haha). Thank you for any help you can give!
6 Answers
But, the direct and indirect object can be the subject in a sentence.
"A cake is made by me".
An active sentence such as "I made a cake" can be turned into passive by using the words that used to be direct or indirect object, as subject, and using the previous subject as a prepositional complement that Spanish grammars call "complemento agente" (with "by" in English and "por" in Spanish). In the passive sentence, "a cake" is no longer a direct object, but the subjet. In Spanish, however, the passive can only be formed using the previous direct object, not the indirect, like English does.
Le di un regalo (a él)
El regalo le fue dado por mí. (weird, but correct grammatically)
ÿl fue dado un regalo por mí. (wrong: the indirect of the active cannot be the subject of the passive)
I don't know a lot about grammar. But, according to me, we know what the direct object of the sentence is when we ask "what" to the verb.
"I make a cake". What do I make? "A cake" (direct object)
"I make a cake to him". Who do I make a cake to'. "To him" is the indirect object.
But, the direct and indirect object can be the subject in a sentence.
"A cake is made by me".
You can correct my mistakes if they exist. I am a Spanish speaker.
I gave the book to her. or I gave her the book.
I=subject
gave=verb
book=d.o. = WHAT
to her-i.o. = TO WHOM
This WHAT approach does not work well with "inverted" verbs like "gustar", or intransitive verbs whose subjects are objects:
Me gusta el fútbol - ¿Qué me gusta? - El fútbol.
According to this, "el fútbol" is the direct object, but it actually is the subject.
Thanks so much for your comments, they are were very helpful and I really appreceate it! Thanks again!
I am so confused, and really fustrated with my homework and I was just wondering if anyone out there knows if these sentences are correct, they want me to give which ones are the indirect object nouns and which is the direct object nouns. I've done most of them but the last two are different because I've been reading and I'm not sure if Estoy and Voy are the indirect, I'm mostly choosing them as indirect because the indirect object noun is supposed to come before the direct object noun right?
So here are the sentences I have done.
Estoy Hamándolos ahora. I chose estoy as the indirect and los at the end of Hamándolos as the direct, is this correct?
Voy a decirte el secreto. I chose Voy as the indirect and te at the end of decirte as the direct, I hope this is right also.
I'm not asking anyone to do my homework for me, I just need someone to tell me if I'm on the right track or if I missed something. Thanks for reading, and hopefully someone out there is better at this than I am(haha). Thank you for any help you can give!
I think you need to study each sentence and decide which is the subject, which is the verb then the d.o. and i.o. Ask yourself the basic questions: who performs the action, which word expresses the action, what is the receiver of the action, who benefits from the action, etc.
voy and estoy are verbs. The direct object is usually a noun or pronoun (noun clause, etc.) It is the WHAT (who) in the sentence. The i.o. is usually a person, or pronoun, noun, prepositional phrase serving as noun, etc. It is the TO WHOM in the sentence.
I gave the book to her. or I gave her the book.
I=subject
gave=verb
book=d.o. = WHAT
to her-i.o. = TO WHOM
Le di el libro (a ella).
Voy a decirte el secreto.
Yo=subject
voy a decir=verb periphrasis
el secreto = d.o. = WHAT
te= i.o. = TO WHOM
Estoy llamándolos ahora.
Yo=subject
estoy llamando=verb (present progressive)
los=d.o.= What
ahora=adverb
llamar may be a poor example because with certain verbs in Spanish some pronouns that would be direct objects in the English sentences are i.o. in Spanish. You might also see
llamándoles in this construction and it is not a leísmo (don't worry if you do not know to what that refers to.)
Estoy Hamándolos ahora. I chose estoy as the indirect and los at the end of Hamándolos as the direct, is this correct?
Voy a decirte el secreto. I chose Voy as the indirect and te at the end of decirte as the direct, I hope this is right also.
I'm maybe not the best person to answer this question but here goes.
In "Voy a decirte el secreto" "el secreto" is the direct object and "te" is the indirect object.
"Estoy Hamándolos ahora". This doesn't make sense to me and so I can't provide you with an answer.
