📖LearnModule 4 · Lesson 19 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, completedUnit 4 · Lo, la, los, las — object pronouns
Le, les — to him, to her, to them
Module 4 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2, completed), lesson 19 of 30: Giving and telling use le (to him, to her. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
le
to him / to her
leh
les
to them
lehs
yo le doy el libro
I give him the book
yoh leh doy ehl LEE-broh
yo les hablo
I speak to them
yoh lehs AH-bloh
yo doy
I give
yoh DOY
mostrar
to show
mohs-TRAR
yo muestro
I show
yoh MWEHS-troh
el regalo
the present
ehl rreh-GAH-loh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Giving and telling use le (to him, to her, to you-usted) and les (to them): Le doy el libro. Les hablo. Dar in the present is doy, das, da, damos, dan — met here as words, drilled in the next band.
Y también · And also
Mostrar (to show) is o-to-ue: muestro, muestras, muestra. Le muestro mi regalo — I show him my present. The verbs of handing things over take le and les.
Ojo · Watch out
le is to him AND to her AND to you (usted): le doy can be any of the three. les is to them, and it never means "to him".
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with le.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 19 in Module 4 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.