Indirect Object Pronouns
The indirect object of a sentence usually answers the question
‘to whom?’ or ‘for whom?’: Roberto me da
un regalo (‘Roberto gives a present to me’); Yo
te compro este libro (‘I'll buy this book for you). To
replace the indirect object noun with a pronoun, you must choose
the correct form that corresponds to the noun:
Singular | |
me | to me |
te | to you, informal |
le | to you, formal |
le | to him, to her |
Plural | |
nos | to us |
os | to you all, informal |
les | to you all, formal |
les | to them |
Sometimes native speakers will use le or les as both the direct and indirect object pronoun when they are referring to a male person. If you are not sure which form to use (le or lo) when talking about a man, you can almost always use le.