📖LearnModule 6 · Lesson 24 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, first halfUnit 5 · The pronoun machine
Pronouns with the infinitive and the command
Module 6 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, first half), lesson 24 of 30: With an infinitive the pronoun has two homes. On this page: 9 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
quiero verlo
I want to see it
KYEH-roh BEHR-loh
lo quiero ver
I want to see it (pronoun first)
loh KYEH-roh behr
dímelo
tell me (it)
DEE-meh-loh
dámelo
give it to me
DAH-meh-loh
no me lo digas
do not tell me
noh meh loh DEE-gahs
bastante
enough
bahs-TAHN-teh
demasiado
too (much)
deh-mah-SYAH-doh
la mitad
the half
lah mee-TAHD
el pedazo
the piece
ehl peh-DAH-soh
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
With an infinitive the pronoun has two homes, and both are right: quiero verlo or lo quiero ver — attached to the end of the infinitive, or parked before the first verb. Pick one per sentence; never both.
Y también · And also
A positive command takes the pronouns ATTACHED and gains an accent to keep its stress: dímelo (tell me it), dámelo (give it to me). A negative command puts them back in front: no me lo digas. That switch is the most-tested pronoun rule at B1.
Ojo · Watch out
Attached pronouns add an accent to keep the stress where it was: dime becomes dímelo, da becomes dámelo. The negative command moves them in front: no me lo digas, never no dímelo.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with quiero verlo.
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 24 in Module 6 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.