HOJA DE REPASO
Los complementos indirectos:
me=to me/for me
nos=to us/for us
te=to you/for you
os=to y’all/for y’all
le=to him/her for him/her
les=to them/for them
Note: There are no masculine or feminine Indirect Object Pronouns - only singular or plural. (Yay!)
Let's look at an example: (Remember that sentences marked with * are grammatically incorrect.)
I give a ticket to the crazed driver. Yo le doy una boleta al chofer loco.
Let's take a look at the components of the sentence:
Yo
the subject (the person for whom we conjugate the verb)
doy
the verb [transitive] (transfers action to an object -requires an object)
una boleta
direct object (receives the action of TO GIVE) - it's what is given.
(al) chofer enloquecido
the indirect object (this is to whom the ticket is given)
Let's replace the Indirect Object chofer with the Indirect Object Pronoun le. We use le because chofer is singular.
*Yo doy una boleta [le].
Like the Direct Object pronoun, in Spanish you must place the indirect object directly in front of the active (conjugated)
verb:
Yo le doy una boleta.  (I give it to him)
Information on Pronoun Placement
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All Pronouns are placed directly before a single conjugated verb, and can be placed before the conjugated verb
even when we use a compound verb:
 Yo le doy una boleta.
 Yo le quiero dar una boleta.
And, we can attach it also to the end of a present participle or an infinitive:
 Yo quiero darle una boleta.
 Yo estoy dándole una boleta.
(We put an accent on dando to preserve the pronunciation.)
LA REGLA LE-LA
Juan
escribe
una carta
le, a María
Subject
verb
Direct object
Indirect object
We replace the DO with la since una
carta is singular and feminine
The singular 3rd pronoun, le, is
already there
So our sentence is:
*Juan le la escribe.
Right? I guess you know from the red color & the asterisk that this isn't what happens.
Unfortunately, we cannot leave this sentence as it is. We cannot have two "L" object pronouns together. So
our original sentence,
"*Juan le la escribe" must change to----> "Juan se la escribe."
Here is one way to remember the exception:
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1) Only Eric Clapton sings Layla (le la) or Laylas (le las).
2) Only criminals Lay low (le lo).
3) Spanish speakers "Say" la/las and "Say" lo/los (se la, se las, se lo, se los)
Let's try another example:
Yo le pido los discos a mi hermano --> Yo se los pido.
-------------------------------------------------le-->se los (IO DO)
We have the option of retaining or removing the Indirect Object "tag" :
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Yo se los pido a mi hermano.
Yo se los pido.
EL EXAMEN ES MARTES, EL 18 DE ABRIL
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