Questions tagged [objetos-indirectos]
Questions about indirect object (those that receive the action of a transitive verb) Preguntas sobre objetos indirectos (aquellos que reciben la acción de un verbo transitivo)
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Does the verb "encantar" only take indirect objects? Why does it not take direct objects?
Encantar, like gustar, means to please/be pleasing to. So I would expect the sentence structure to be:
object (thing(s) getting pleased) + conjugation of encantar in accordance with subject + subject (...
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Is this le (indirect object pronoun) redundant?
La parte arrendataria le comunica a la parte arrendadora que perdería la fianza.
In the sentence the owner (la parte arrendataria) is telling the tenant (la parte arrendadora) that the tenant will ...
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Can the impersonal se be used with direct/indirect object pronouns?
I’m trying to understand the grammar of this sentence:
Los siete años que pasaron en la escuela estuvieron marcados por diversos incidentes desagradables a los que nunca se los pudo vincular de ...
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What is the difference between “Voy a ir al cine” and Voy al cine”?
What is the right sentence? Or are they both used? I want to know the exact meaning of the two sentences. Thank you!
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Why is "le" used instead of "la" in "No puedo hacerle cambiar de opinión"?
In the following sentence, why is the indirect object pronoun "le" used instead of the direct object pronoun "la"? (The sentence is from Olly Richard´s Short Stories in Spanish)
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How would you say "I am him" or similar others in Spanish?
So I know that there are direct object pronouns in Spanish. Normally, you could substitue the direct object noun (i.e. the object, like in "I walked the dog," where the direct object is the ...
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What does le mean in "no le tienen miedo a la muerte"?
I sent a video of people swimming in flood waters to my Spanish speaking language learning partner, to which she responded
No le tienen miedo a la muerte.
The le in this sentence confused me, so I ...
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¿Cuál es el sujeto y el objeto directo en la frase "Algo pasa a ella"? What is the subject and direct object of the sentence "Algo pasa a ella"?
Actualmente estoy tomando clases de español. Encontré esta frase
Algo pasa a ella.
en una clase cuando practicamos pronombres de objeto directo y objeto indirecto. El profesor me explicó que "...
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¿Cuya presencia fue mandada en esta frase?
Lo apuntado por debajo de este currículum del año de 1820 dice:
El Supremo Concejo de Estado ha mandado se le tenga presente en virtud de Real Orden de 1 de Agosto comunicado por el Ministerio de ...
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Omission of complements: cases where this is not allowed? (question about reddit Spanish wiki)
The reddit r/learnspanish wiki has a section called "Omission of Complements."
It discusses differences in meaning or emphasis between pairs of sentences like the following:
Me castigaron. /...
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Distinguishing between indirect objects and circumstantial complements
According to this, a verb can take complements of four different types: attribute, direct complement, indirect complement (IC), and circumstantial complement.
I sometimes have trouble distinguishing ...
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How can I rearrange this sentence? "Dependo de mi novio
I think this is a correct sentence:
Dependo de mi novio.
If that's correct, then I'm wondering how I can "rearrange" this sentence using different word order and pronouns.
For example, ...
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"A los problemas del mundo no les doy mucha importancia." -> "No les doy mucha importancia."?
I asked a native speaker about when I could replace a prepositional phrase with a pronoun.
If I understood correctly, here is what they told me:
Usually, I can only do this when the object of the ...
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Le compré un regalo para Pedro
Is the following sentence correct?
Le compré un regalo para Pedro.
Does it mean the following?
I bought (from him/her) a present for Pedro.
I ask because a friend gave me the following example ...
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Ana, lanza el balón a la canasta
My quest to understand the relationship between prepositional phrases and indirect object pronouns continues.
In this book, I find the example sentence
Ana, lanza el balón a la canasta.
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