Question

I'm kind of stuck on the whole "me, le, te, nos, les..." thing in Spanish.
____di mis revistas viejas a los niños de la escuela primaria. Quieren cortar las fotos.

Can someone please tell me what goes in the blank, and explain the rules related to this? Thanks in advance for the help.

Answer 1

Let's take a look at the words that you're asking about:

ME (me)
TE (you)
LE (him/her)
NOS (us)
LES (them)

These words are all used as "indirect object pronouns."

We use these words in order to tell WHO the action is directed at.

For example,

if I wanna say "I give YOU the apples,"
I would say "Yo TE doy las manzanas."

Since the action is directed at YOU,
we would say TE.

You see?

Another example,

if I wanna say "You give ME the orange,"
I would say "Tú ME das la naranja."

The action is directed at ME.
So I would say ME.

You get it?

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Let's look at the sentence that you needed to fill in:

"Yo _________ di mis revistas viejas a los niños de la escuela primaria."

Let's break down the sentence.

"Di" means "I gave."

"mis revistas viejas" means "my old magazines."

"a los niños" means "to the children."

"de la escuela primaria" means "of the elementary school."

So, at this point, we know that the sentence is trying to say...
"I gave my old magazines to the children of the elementary school."

Now, we have to put the correct indirect object pronoun into the blank.

Our choices are ME, TE, LE, NOS, and LES.

Let's look at the sentence again, in English:
"I gave my old magazines to the children of the elementary school."

The action is directed at the CHILDREN. (Los niños)

So, we have to use the indirect object pronoun for THEM.

And that would be LES.

You see?