62: Give it to me! Double Object Pronouns in Italian
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🗓️ 10 March 2019
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Give it to me. I'll buy it for you. To say these sentences in Italian, you'll need a "double object pronoun". Learn what they are and how to use them.
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Today's Italian words
Quel libro, me lo compri? = That book, can you buy it for me? (literally: that book, for me, it, you buy?)
Quel =that
Libro = book
Me = for me
Lo = it
Compri = you buy
Compro = I buy
Lo compro = I buy it. Literally: it, I buy (For masculine things, like "il libro")
La compro = I buy it. (la = for feminine things, like "la torta")
Ti compro un libro = I buy a book for you (literally: for you, a buy a book)
Te lo compro = I buy it for you (literally: for you, it, I buy)
Me lo compri = You buy it for me (literally: for me, it, you buy)
Me la compri = You buy it for me (la = for feminine things, like "la torta")
Me lo dai = You give it to me (literally: to me, it, you give)
Me la dai = You give it to me (la = for feminine things, like "la torta")
Te lo compro = I buy it for you (literally: for you, it, I buy)
Te la compro = I buy it for you (la = for feminine things, like "la torta")
Te lo do = I give it to you (literally: to you, it, I give)
Te la do = I give it to you (la = for feminine things, like "la torta")
Glielo compro = I buy it for him/her/them/you formal (literally, for him/her/them/you formal, it, I buy)
Gliela compro = I buy it for him/her/them/you formal (la = for feminine things, like "la torta")
Glielo do = I give it to him/her/them/you formal (literally, to him/her/them/you formal, it, I give)
Gliela do = I give it to him/her/them/you formal (la = for feminine things, like "la torta")
Ce lo compro = I buy it for us (literally, for us, it, I buy)
Ce la compro = I buy it for us (for feminine things, like "la torta")
Ve lo compro = I buy it for you all/both (literally: for you all/both, it, I buy)
Ve la compro = I buy it for you all/both (la = for feminine things, like "la torta")
Ve lo do = I give it to you all/both (literally: to you all/both, it, I give)
Ve la do = I give it to you all/both (la = for feminine things, like "la torta")
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| 0:00.0 | Give it to me. I'll buy it for you. To say these sentences in Italian, you need what's called a double object pronoun. |
| 0:10.0 | Find out what this is and how to use them in episode 62 of 5 Minutes Italian. Ciao to all |
| 0:27.5 | and beenvunitian. |
| 0:29.9 | And I'm Matteo, |
| 0:31.4 | Ciao. |
| 0:31.9 | Mateo, |
| 0:33.6 | Matteo, |
| 0:34.6 | that book, me lo, |
| 0:36.3 | come. |
| 0:36.7 | Okay. So this is an example of a real sentence that I said to Mateo last week. |
| 0:46.3 | Quell Libro, me lo compry. |
| 0:50.3 | That book, me lo compry. Can you buy it for me? |
| 0:57.0 | That... |
| 0:59.0 | ...book... |
| 1:01.0 | Me... for me... |
| 1:04.0 | ...it...comprie. |
| 1:07.0 | You buy. |
| 1:08.0 | Now, I wanted to buy a Chinese book. I was about to go on holiday, so I wanted to buy a Chinese book. I was about to go on holiday so I wanted to buy a Chinese book so I could study, |
| 1:15.6 | but I knew that it wouldn't arrive in time for my trip. So I asked Matteo if he could get it for me because he has a subscription to a service where he gets stuff delivered faster. |
| 1:25.6 | So this sentence is the perfect example of what we're going to learn about today, |
| 1:31.3 | and in particular the me lo part, so that me lo compi. |
| 1:37.3 | The official name for these things is double object pronouns, |
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