Question

What are direct objects?
How would you rephrase the following sentence using a direct object pronoun?

Yo veo a los voluntarios.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct form to rephrase the sentence in the exercise using a direct object pronoun is:

• Yo los veo.

Explanation:

The direct objects in Spanish are the words on which the used verb falls, these are, using the personal pronouns as guide:

• Yo: Me.
• Tú: Te.
• Usted: Lo.
• Él: Lo.
• Ella: La.
• Ello: Lo.
• Nosotros/Nosotras: Los/Las.
• Ustedes: Los
• Vosotros/Vosotras: Os.
• Ellos/Ellas: Los/Las.

How you can see, the direct object could replace a particular noun, in the sentence: Yo veo a los voluntarios, "los voluntarios" corresponds to the personal pronoun they or "ellos" in Spanish, by this reason, not to use that noun again, we use the direct object "los".