This document provides information about direct and indirect object pronouns in French. It lists the subject, direct object, and indirect object pronouns. It explains that direct object pronouns take the action of the verb and can be people or things, answering who or what. It also notes that indirect objects receive the action of the verb and can only be living things, answering to whom or for whom. The document concludes by stating that double object pronouns go in the same place in a sentence but have their own order.

1. French 421-422 Chapter 2 Grammar 1

2. Notre Chanson
Me, to me, ME
You, to you, TE
Us, to us, NOUS
You, to you, VOUS
Direct Object Pronouns have LE, LA, and LES, they mean
HIM, HER, IT, and THEM
BUT To him, To her, To them, LUI/LEUR
OBJECT PRONOUNS, c’est super!

3. Qu’est-ce qu’un object direct?
Direct Object Pronouns take the action of the verb. A
direct object can be a person or a thing.
Direct objects answer the questions
WHO (hooooo!)?
WHAT?
These verbs are TRANSITIVE and
will be listed as vt in a French
dictionary.

4. Où mettre les pronoms?
NO MATTER WHICH PRONOUNS, NO MATTER
HOW MANY PRONOUNS
In the present tense, put the object pronoun BEFORE
the conjugated verb.
Elle regarde la télé. Elle la regarde.
If your sentence has an infinitive in it for any reason, put
the pronoun BEFORE the infinitive.
Elle veut regarder la télé. Elle veut la regarder.
Elle va regarder la télé. Elle va la regarder.

5. …Et un objet indirect?
Indirect object pronouns receive the action of the verb.
Indirect objects can only be living things. French verbs
that take indirect objects often refer to giving, receiving,
or communicating.
Indirect object pronouns answer the
questions
TO WHOM?
FOR WHOM?
These verbs are INTRANSITIVE and
will be referred to as vi in a French
dictionary.

6. 2 Pronoms!?!?! C’est possible!
Double object pronouns always go into the same PLACE
In the sentence, but they have their own ORDER.
me
te le
nous la lui
vous les leur y en