Object Pronouns

Give your verbs something to work on

Sep 22, 2024

Love it or hate it, grammar 😨 is an essential part of language, and using object pronouns correctly is key to making your sentences sound more natural.

Today's issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at direct and indirect object pronouns (and other pronouns that work with them), where they go, and when and why it's important to use them. 🔑

Table of Contents

Lessons

Grammatically speaking,

objects are the 👩🏻 people 🧔🏽 and 📚 things 🏙️ that your verbs act on, and
object pronouns are the words that replace them so that you're not repeating the same words over and over and over and 🔁.

There are two types of objects, and therefore two types of object pronouns:

Direct objects
➡️ Direct object pronouns

Indirect objects
➡️ Indirect object pronouns

😕 Not sure about the difference? Take a look at Direct vs indirect object pronouns.

Once you feel comfortable with object pronouns, you need to know that there are two other types of pronouns that often work with direct and indirect objects:

Adverbial pronouns: en and y

Reflexive pronouns

In addition to knowing how 📜 to use these pronouns, you need to know where 🧭 to use them, so that's where these two lessons come in:

Object pronoun placement - Where do object pronouns go in different kinds of sentences?

Double pronoun order - When you have two pronouns, which one comes first?