Text in Spanish.-

Los otros pronombres personales

1.Creo que no te ha entendido

2.Sin embargo, se lo he explicado

3.Por teléfono es más difícil entenderse

4.Tienes razón. Voy a ir a verte

5.Me decías que ibas a venir

6.Me lo decías ayer

7.¿Nos puedes prestar las llaves?

8.Os las voy a dar

9.Voy a comprar pasado mañana

10.La voy a comprar pasado mañana

11.La camisa de Juan está descosida

12.Se la coseré luego

13.El guitarrista tocaba una melodía

14.El niño le miraba

Text in English.-

The other personal pronouns

1.I think that he has not understood you

2.I have explained it to him, though

3.By telephone it is more difficult to understand one another

4.You are right. I'm going to see him

5.You were telling me that you were going to work

6.You were telling me yesterday

7.Will you lend us the keys?

8.I'm going to give them to you

9.I'm going to buy a table

10.I'm going to buy it the day after tomorrow

11.John's shirt is split

12.I will sew it up for him later

13.The guitarist was playing a melody

14.The child was looking at him

Notes.-

1.Sin embargo means ¿however¿, ¿nevertheless¿, etc, and goes at the beginning of the phrase whenever possible.

2.The perfect tense is used in Spanish in almost exactly the same way as in English.

Se lo he explicado: ¿I have explained it to him¿. Lo is the direct object pronoun, but you may be surprise to see se instead of le for the ¿to him¿ indirect object pronoun. Here, se is not the reflexive pronoun that we find in entenderse in the next sentence. When two object pronouns come together, the first one changes from le or les into se.

3.Tocar means ¿to touch¿ and ¿to play¿: Yo tocaba la mesa: ¿I was touching the table¿; tú tocabas la guitarra: ¿you are playing the guitar¿.

Exercise.- Translate into Spanish.

1.However, he has not come.

¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿.

2.I have told him / I have bought it

¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

3.I want to go to see him / to the restaurant

¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿.

4.John was playing the guitar

Juan¿¿¿¿¿. ¿¿. Guitar

5.Lend me your key

¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿..

Answers: 1.Sin embargo, no ha venido. 2.Se lo he dicho / Se lo he comprado. 3. Quiero ir a verle / quiero ir al restaurante. 4.Juan tocaba la guitarra. 5.Déjame tu llave.