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when talking about girls/women do you use the pronoun LAS or LES? i ask because i have seen AND heard both used
are these people making mistakes??? is it possible that ALL of them r making mistakes??? |
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It depends.
According to the RAE "las" is a direct object pronoun and "les" is an indirect object pronoun. Thus "I tell them (the girls) that I can see them" is "Les digo que puedo verlas". However, there are non-standard dialects which modify these rules: laísmo and leísmo. Laísmo is using la/las as indirect object pronouns, and is supposed to be common in e.g. Madrid; leísmo is using le/les as direct object pronouns when referring to people, and is rarer. |
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Both can be used, depending on the context and whether it is an indirect or direct object.
-- ¿Sabes algo de María y Ana? No las he visto desde hace mucho. (Have you heard anything from María and Ana? I haven't seen them for a long time.) -- Voy a verlas mañana. ¿Quieres que les dé algún mensaje?. (I will see them tomorrow. Do you want me to give them a message?.) -- Sí. ¿Podrías decirles que las quiero invitar a mi fiesta? (Yes. Could you tell them I want to invite them to my party?)
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I was just being silly. I was going to ask whether you is sure.
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