We’ve chosen some vocabulary and grammatical concepts from this song and provided flashcards, games and exercises for you to learn and practice them.

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Activities

Vocabulary Excercises

We have chosen 20 words and phrases out of this song to form our vocabulary list, which can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice this vocabulary.

Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn the vocabulary from this song with our sets of Spanish to English and English to Spanish flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Vocabulary Games – Practice the vocabulary for this song using our memory and matching games and our word search puzzle.

Vocabulary Exercises – Fill in the missing vocabulary with drag and drop and fill in the blanks exercises.

Grammar Exercises

This song provided several direct and indirect object pronouns. Charts of these pronouns can be found below.

You can use the following activities to learn and practice these pronouns.

Object Pronoun Flashcards – Practice the occurrences of the gerund in this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Object Pronoun Games – Practice the occurrences of the gerund in this song using our memory and matching games.

Object Pronoun Exercises – Practice the occurrences of the gerund in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

Term	Meaning	P of S	Context
a veces	sometimes, occasionally		a vece’
beber	to drink	reg verb	beber
cama	bed	fem noun	cama
comprar	to buy, purchase; bribe	reg verb	compra
copa	glass, wineglass; drink, cup	fem noun	copa’
dar vueltas	go around in circles, go round and round		vuelta’
decir	to say, tell	irreg verb	digan
enterarse de	notice, realize, see; find out, discover	reg verb	me enteré
esperar	to wait	reg verb	esperar
estudioso	studious, diligent, bookish	adj	Estudiosa
fenomenal	amazingly, brilliantly	adv	fenomenal
gastar	to spend; to use up; to wear out	reg verb	gástalo
gustar	to like, to enjoy	reg verb	gustan
hablar	to speak	reg verb	hablar
llevar	to take; to carry	reg verb	llevaré
nadar	to swim	reg verb	nadar
oponerse	to disagree with, be the opposite of, object	irreg verb	me opongo
perforar	to drill, puncture, perforate	reg verb	perfora
quitar	to take, take from, remove	reg verb	quito
romper	to break, tear, rip; wear out	reg verb	rompieron

Object Pronouns

Direct Object Pronouns

A direct object is a person or thing that is the recipient of the action of a verb. For example, ‘the dog’ in the phrase ‘I fed the dog’. A direct object pronoun replaces a direct object in a phrase. So taking the previous example, if ‘the dog’ is understood, using a pronoun we could say ‘I fed it‘.

Following are the Spanish direct object pronouns:

	Singular	Plural
1st person	me – me	nos – us
2nd person	te – you	os – you (all)
3rd person	lo – him, it, you	los – them, you (all)
	la – her, it, you	las – them, you (all

Indirect Object Pronouns

An indirect object is a person or thing that is affected by the action of a verb but is not the primary recipient. For example, ‘Ernest’ in the phrase ‘I gave Ernest the book’. An indirect object pronoun replaces an indirect object in a phrase. So taking the previous example, if ‘Ernest’ is understood, using a pronoun we could say ‘I gave him the book’.

Following are the Spanish indirect object pronouns:

	Singular	Plural
1st person	me – me	nos – us
2nd person	te – you	os – you (all)
3rd person	le – him, her, it, you	les – them, you (all)

Pronoun Placement

Pronoun placement varies depending on the type of sentence where the pronoun is used. Following are the placements we see in this song.

Simple Clauses

In simple clauses with one verb, excluding verbs in the imperative mood, the pronoun goes directly in front of the verb. We see several examples in this song, such as:

• se nota cuando me ve’ (it’s obvious when you watch me)
• Mami, me tiene’ juquea’o (Mami, you’ve got me hooked)
• Hace tiempo le rompieron el cora (They broke her heart a long time ago)

Infinitives and Gerunds

In clauses that use infinitives or gerunds, the object pronouns can either be placed directly before the conjugated verb or attached to the end of the infinitive or gerund. The examples we see in this song are:

• Pa’ yo dеvorarte como animal (So that I’ll devour you like an animal)
• yo te vo’a esperar (I’ll wait for you)
• lo vo’a celebrar (I’ll celebrate it)

Note that ‘yo voy a esperarte‘ and ‘voy a celebrarlo‘ would also have been correct.

Imperative

In clauses in the imperative, or command form, object pronoun placement depends on whether the command is affirmative or negative. We only see affirmative commands in this song. In this case, object pronouns are always attached to the end of the verb. The examples in this song are:

• Y dime qué quiere’ beber (And tell me what you want to drink)
• Toma cinco mil, gástalo en Sephora (Take five thousand, spend it at Sephora)

Pronoun Order

It isn’t uncommon to see two object pronouns used together in a clause (i.e. I gave it to you). In this case, the indirect object pronoun will always come before the direct object pronoun.

All of the examples in this song combine ‘te’ and ‘lo’, for example:

• Cuando te lo quito despué’ de lo’ partie’ (When I take it off you after parties)