📖LearnModule 6 · Lesson 21 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, first halfUnit 5 · The pronoun machine
lo, la, los, las — say it without repeating
Module 6 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, first half), lesson 21 of 30: Stop repeating nouns: ¿Ves el autobús? On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
lo veo
I see him
loh BEH-oh
la conozco
I know her
lah koh-NOHS-koh
los tomo
I take them
lohs TOH-moh
el pronombre
the pronoun
ehl proh-NOHM-breh
reemplazar
to replace
rreh-ehm-plah-SAR
¿me entiendes?
do you understand me?
meh ehn-TYEHN-dehs
entender
to understand
ehn-tehn-DEHR
yo doy las gracias
I say thank you
yoh doy lahs GRAH-syahs
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
Stop repeating nouns: ¿Ves el autobús? Lo veo. ¿Conoces a María? La conozco. The pronoun parks right before the verb — lo for him or it, la for her or it, los and las for them.
Y también · And also
One habit to keep from the Basic band: the pronoun never takes an accent and never moves behind a conjugated verb. Lo veo, never veo lo. Dar (to give) is the verb these pronouns will ride most: doy, das, da, damos, dan.
Ojo · Watch out
lo, la, los, las go BEFORE a conjugated verb: lo veo, los tomo. Never veo lo. And lo is him OR it; la is her OR it — the noun's gender decides, not the meaning.
tomar, presente — the table
yo tomo · tú tomas · él/ella/usted toma · nosotros tomamos · ustedes toman · ellos/ellas toman
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with lo veo.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out tomar, presente in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
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.