In spanish when do you use le

The most common such verb is gustar , which is often used in translating sentences where we use a different word order to indicate liking:.

In addition, various verbs similar in usage and meaning to gustar or the opposite are used with le or les. Some examples:. A few verbs commonly use le when its object is a person but not when the object is a thing or concept. For example, with creer , " No lo creo " means "I don't believe it," but " No le creo " can mean "I don't believe him" or "I don't believe her. In this cases, you can think of what a person believes or not as being the direct object, but the person being affected by that belief or lack being the indirect object.

But in a simple sentence such as " No le creo " the direct object isn't stated. The same goes for entender to understand : Lo entiendo. I understand it. Le entiendo. I taught it in the Catholic school. La obedezco. The law? I obey it. But: Le obedezco a mi madre. I obey my mother. A few other verbs use le for reasons that aren't immediately apparent:.

Importar to matter, to be important : A los internautas les importa la seguridad. Security is important to Internet users. Interesar to interest : No les interesaba acumular ni tener propiedades. Isn't a person indirect object and therefore le? Usually, we need use the indirect object pronoun even when we're not replacing read the rest of the post to see when that doesn't happen :. Again in this case,we really need to use the indirect object pronoun even when we're not replacing:.

Officially, the rule says we have two options for masculine le or lo but for feminine, you can only use "la", although we generally don't pay much attention to that rule in the practice. When a verb allows an object or a person but not both and the meaning doesn't change we use direct object regardless.

Because there is no confusion whatsoever in these two cases, we don't use the indirect object pronoun when we're not replacing:. Right: Perdono a mi amiga. Wrong: Le perdono a mi amiga. We don't need that le.

If I can have a direct object or a indirect object but each goes with a different meaning, I have to choose:. When is it right to use 'lo', 'la' and 'le' in Spanish?

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