Italian Course Beginner Series 50: Indirect Object Pronouns Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello my name is Claudio and welcome to
another video lesson today we learn
about the indirect object pronouns in
Italian now this lesson is very
important because the indirect object
pronouns play a massive role in the
language as a whole and they are also
very very very easy to confuse with the
reflexive pronouns now if you don't know
what reflexive pronouns are I recommend
you go and watch the reflexive pronouns
video and the reflexive form video now
in this video I will teach you what the
indirect object pronouns are and I will
also tell you the difference between
these and the reflexive pronouns let's
begin with a very very very easy
sentence d mondo now the verb Mandara
means to send to send something and it's
an added type verb go and watch the
video on the present tense if you don't
know what an arrow type verb is but
basically because it ends in our a we
call it a de type herb and we know that
it's conjugation is the same as all the
other arrow type verbs therefore we know
how to conjugate it and we know that in
the first person singular it looks
exactly like this man dot so we know
that this verb mando by itself means yo
mando I sent in the first person
singular present tense de mando is a
contracted form of year mando up there
now there is an object pronoun if you
don't know what this is basically go and
watch the personal pronouns video
personal pronouns are divided into two
categories subjects and object pronouns
this is an object pronouns and you can
see all the object pronouns in Italian
here so in a nutshell they are May Day
Louie
lei Noi boy
Laura when you say I sent something to
you in this case I send to you you have
to put the subject but of course the
subject is always omitted in Italian
then you have your verb I send and then
you have the preposition to to you in
Italian you rarely do this though what
you do is you compress these two
particles the preposition and the object
pronoun they link together and they form
an indirect object pronoun that you will
put before the verb so in this case yo
mondo up there becomes tomando the
notice the contraction here and the fact
that you don't put the subject in
Italian because it's obvious easy enough
so what is the trouble the trouble is
that indirect object pronouns are very
easy to confuse with the reflexive
pronouns for instance de la vie this is
an example of reflexive form and this is
a reflexive pronoun it looks exactly the
same as the indirect object pronoun it
sounds exactly the same as the indirect
object pronoun but it's a different
thing in this case the verb levare it's
another edit type verb therefore we know
that if it ends in I we have we are
dealing with the second person singular
so Lobby means you wash not I wash Lavo
would mean I wash but la vie means you
wash and here you have your object T
which means you so because the subject
and the object are the same this is
called reflexive form quite different
from the
this is not reflexive form this is just
an indirect object pronoun that was
created and put before the verb but the
meaning is I send to you there is no
reflexive form here at all so careful
because it's very easy to confuse these
two constructions the indirect object
pronouns can also be confused with the
object contracted pronouns for instance
I love you
yo I'm up there you will never hear this
because the way to say I love you in
Italian is the arm or the arm again this
is not a reflexive form but it's not an
indirect object pronoun either
I love you we have a direct object there
is no - here okay so we don't love to
anyone we love someone so there is a
direct object so T is an object
contracted pronoun meaning the object
pronoun should be here but we contract
it and make it become T and place it
before the verb however the verb to love
Amar'e is an added type verb and because
it's an era type herb we know that when
he goes am oh this is the very first
person singular so it means I love not
you love I love Amy means you love mo
means I love so the Amma means I love
you and this is another type of pronoun
that we're going to look at in the next
video so this is why pronouns are very
difficult in Italian they are actually
easy but the thing is they all look
quite similar so if I were you in my
notebook I would have a table with all
the different pronouns and you would see
they're men
of them look exactly the same but some
of them don't and it's easy to confuse
them so remember that the reflexive
pronouns the indirect object pronouns
and the object contracted pronouns look
very similar to one another and it's
easy to confuse them I hope this video
has been helpful
I will see you in the next one take care