1. Direct Object Pronouns -Les objets directs -Les objets directs

2. It exists in ENGLISH! Yesterday, I found a cat. I took the cat home. I fed the cat. I bathed the cat. I pet the cat. My mom saw the cat. She loved the cat. I kept the cat. I love the cat! I love the cat!

3. Gets a little old right? Yesterday, I found the cat. I took it home. I fed it. I bathed it. I pet it. My mom saw it. She loved it. I kept it. I love it! I love it!

4. So what do we do? (without really knowing it?) Instead of repeating the cat all the time, we take a short cut and replace the cat with IT … we just did a direct object pronoun! Woohoo!

5. The same thing happens in French BERET Hier, jai trouvé un chat. Jai amené le chat chez moi. Jai lavé le chat. Jai caressé le chat. Ma mère a vu le chat. Elle aimait le chat. Jai gardé le chat. Jadore le chat! Jadore le chat!

6. Now lets see what happens when we replace the cat with it Hier, jai trouvé un chat. Je lai amené chez moi. Je lai lavé. Je lai caressé. Ma mère la vu. Elle laimait. Je lai gardé. Je ladore! Je ladore!

7. So what happened? le chat was replaced with the direct object pronoun le le chat was replaced with the direct object pronoun le *note- if the verb begins in a vowel, use l *note- if the verb begins in a vowel, use l Jadore le chat. = Je le adore = Je ladore

8. What if the noun we are replacing is feminine? Je mange la pomme = Je la mange.

9. And if its plural? Je mange les pommes = Je les mange. Jaime les chats = Je les aime.

10. So lets get it all together. Masculine nouns will be replaced with - LE Feminine nouns will be replaced with - LA ANYTHING plural will be replaced with - LES

11. Look on your worksheet and try em out! Est-ce que tu vois la fleur? Nous aimons les bananes. Il nadore pas les jeux vidéos. Elle mange le fromage. Vous regardez la télévision. Est-ce que tu la vois? Nous les aimons Il ne les adore pas Elle le mange Vous la regardez

12. Je vois la fleur. Je la vois. Now lets see what happens step-by- step. 1.In the original sentence, where is the noun? 2.In the new sentence, where is the direct object pronoun? 95% of the time, this will hold true!

13. RULES The noun to be replaced will 95% of the time immediately follow the verb. The noun to be replaced will 95% of the time immediately follow the verb. (Je vois la fleur) The direct object pronoun will ALWAYS go directly in front of the verb. (Je la vois.)

14. Tricky tricky… Je vois les roses au parc à midi. Find the noun and circle it! Je vois les roses au parc à midi. Now, replace it with your direct object pronoun! Je les vois au parc à midi.