Download Direct Object Pronouns

Escribe en espanol (¡usa el pretérito!):
1. I played the guitar last night.
Yo toqué la guitarra anoche.
2. We practiced Spanish yesterday.
Nosotros practicamos el español ayer.
3. I played baseball last week.
Yo jugué al béisbol la semana pasada.
4. They looked for hats last month.
Ellos buscaron gorras el mes pasado.
Objetivos:
• practicar el vocabulario de compras y los
pretéritos
– revisar la tarea
– escribir (hoja)
• escribir apuntes sobre pronombres de objeto
directo y practicar
– escribir (hoja)
The Preterite of –ar Verbs
• Preterite tense – used to talk about
actions that were completed in the
past / already happened
• To form the preterite tense of regular -ar
verbs in Spanish:
1. Drop the –ar ending
2. Add the appropriate ending for the subject
being talked about
(yo)
(tú)
é
aste
(él / ella / Ud.)
nosotros
ó
amos
(ellos / ellas / Uds.)
aron
*note accents in
yo & él/ella/Ud.
forms!*
Verbs that end in -car and -gar
have a spelling change in the yo
form only of the preterite.
AR verbs (like jugar)
car: c=>qu
that have a stemchange in the present
buscar => yo busqué
tense do not have a
gar: g=>gu
stem change in the
pagar => yo pagué
preterite.
Direct Object Pronouns
• Direct objects receive the action of a verb they answer the question “Whom?” or
“What?” about a verb.
– I bought shoes.
o I bought what? Shoes.
– In Spanish: Compré zapatos.
• Pronouns take the place of nouns. So, direct
object pronouns take the place of direct
object nouns.
– Previous example in English: I bought shoes.
– With a direct object pronoun: I bought them.
• Ejemplos en español:
– Yo compré zapatos. -- Yo los compré.
– Tengo el libro. -- Lo tengo.
– Llevo la gorra. -- La llevo.
 In English, him, her, it, and them are
examples of direct object pronouns.
 In Spanish, the direct object pronoun must
agree in gender and in number with the
noun it is replacing.
Direct Object Pronouns:
Singular
lo [it, him, you (masc.
Plural
los [them, all of you]
Usted)]
la [it, her, you (fem. Usted)] las [them, all of you (fem.)]
 Direct object pronouns are placed directly before
the conjugated verbs.
– Busco los calcetines. – Los busco.
– Tengo una gorra. – La tengo.
 When an infinitive follows the conjugated verb,
the direct object pronoun can be placed before
the conjugated verb or attached to the infinitive.
 Por ejemplo:
– No voy a comprar la hamburguesa.
• No la voy a comprar.
Or:
• No voy a comprarla.
¡A practicar!
Rewrite each sentence using a direct object
pronoun in place of the noun.
Modelo: Como la pizza. -- La como.
1. Tengo los diccionarios. Los tengo.
2. Bebo el café. Lo bebo.
3. Busqué los zapatos en mi dormitorio. Los
busqué.
4. Miro las pulseras en la joyería. Las miro en la
joyería.
5. Como las zanahorias en el almuerzo.
Las como en el almuerzo.