Lesson 24

Dar and Who Gets What

Language Transfer Complete Spanish is by Mihalis Eleftheriou. Listen to the original audio first; use these notes for revision.

This lesson teaches dar and keeps reinforcing object pronouns in natural sentence building. It also continues the plural you pattern with ustedes.

New vocabulary

Spanish	English
dar	to give
doy	I give
da	he/she gives, you give (formal)
dan	they give, you give (plural)
das	you give (informal)
ustedes	you (plural)

Example sentences

Spanish	English
Lo doy.	I give it.
Los doy.	I give them. (masculine/mixed)
Las doy.	I give them. (feminine)
Él da.	He gives.
Ella da.	She gives.
Ellos dan.	They give. (masculine/mixed)
Ellas dan.	They give. (feminine)
Das.	You give.
Me lo dan.	They give it to me.
Ellos me lo dan.	They give it to me. (emphatic subject)
Te lo doy mañana.	I'll give it to you tomorrow.
¿Me lo da mañana?	Will you give it to me tomorrow?
¿Nos lo dan mañana?	Will they give it to us tomorrow?
¿Ustedes nos lo dan mañana?	Will you all give it to us tomorrow?

Key notes

Dar is one of the four common -oy verbs: voy, doy, estoy, soy.
With object pronouns, Spanish keeps stacking the pieces before the main verb: me lo dan, te lo doy.
Ustedes behaves like they grammatically, even when it means you all.