pls explain the placement of prenom personnel in imperatif
Answers
Tu me les donnes. - Donne-les-moi !You give them to me. - Give them to me!
Vous vous y amusez. - Amusez-vous-y !You have fun there. - Have fun there!
Tu le lui envoies. - Envoie-le-lui!You send it to him. - Send it to him!
When you use Impératif with object pronouns, you have to consider three things:
The object pronouns me/te become stress pronouns moi/toi
The verb comes first, followed by both object pronouns, each hyphenated (-) to the word before
Direct object pronouns le/la/les are placed before indirect object pronouns moi/toi/lui/nous/vous/leur
BUT
Adverbial pronouns en/y are placed after moi/toi/lui/nous/vous/leur and moi/toi become m' and t'
ATTENTION:
You don't put a hyphen between the two pronouns, when using t' / m' before y or en.
Donne-t'en!Give yourself some!
Parle-m'en!Tell me about it!
Tell me about them!
-> Note that en here can replace a plural noun referring to things but NOT people (parler desvacances, but not parler des enfants for example)
See also En can replace de + phrase (adverbial pronoun)