THE PERSONAL Pronoun - Indirect Object Form Homepage
As Indirect Object French Italian Portuguese Romanian Spanish Translation
     
Singular 1st Person Me Mi Me Îmi Me Me
2nd Person Te Ti Te Îţi Te You
Masculine 3rd Person Lui Gli Lhe Îi Le Him
Feminine 3rd Person Lui Le Lhe Îi Le Her
Objects Impersonal Y/En Ne/Ci/Vi     It/There
     
Plural 1st Person Nous Ci Nós Ne Nos Us
2nd Person Vous Vi Vocês Os You
Masculine 3rd Person Leur Loro Lhes Le Les Them
Feminine 3rd Person Leur Loro Lhes Le Les Them
Objects
Impersonal Y/En Ne/Ci/Vi     Them/There
How to Avoid Confusions?
To determine whether you should use the direct object or the indirect object, you may remember this simple rule: the direct object answers to the questions what, whom, which? The indirect object answers to questions like to whom, about whom, about what, etc (the questions have a preposition).
Example: I give you flowers. I is the subject, you is indirect object (to whom I give flowers?), and flowers is a direct object (what do I give?). Similarly, Yo le envio flores (Spanish: I give him/her flowers.) In other words, the direct object receives the action of the verb directly.
Except for Romanian, in all four languages, the indirect object is equal to the direct object pronoun, except in the 3rd person.
In all five languages, the indirect object pronoun precedes the conjugated verb, except loro in Italian.  
Examples: Il leur parle, but Parla loro (French/Italian: He speaks to them.)
In Portugal, you may place the pronouns after the verb, if it stands alone. (Diz-lhe -- S/He tells him/her)
In all five languages, the pronoun comes after a negation: No le digo (Spanish: I do not tell him/her).  
Except in French, the indirect object is attached to the infinitive, to the auxiliary verb in a compound infinitive, and to participles, but it can also be placed before the conjugated verb.
Examples: Quiero preguntarle. (Spanish/French: I want to ask him/her.), but Je veux lui demander.
In Portuguese, like in French, the pronoun may come before the verb (Pode me dizer?Can you tell me?)
In all five languages, the direct object pronouns come after the verb in affirmative commands.  
Examples: Demandez-lui (French: Ask him).
In French, please note that me and te become moi and toi: Demandez-moi (Ask me).
En/Y -- Particulary of the French Language  
En and Y are personal pronouns that refer to objects. En replaces an expression with the preposition de.
Y replaces an expression that starts with any preposition except de, for example à, dans, and sur.
Examples: Je parle de ce livre. J'en parle. (I talk about this book. I talk about it.)
Nous partons à Paris. Nous y partons. (We leave for Paris. We leave for it.)
BUT Je parle de Simon. Je parle de lui. (I speak about Simon. I speak about him.) -- Simon is a person.
Ne/Ci/Vi -- Particularity of the Italian Language  
Ne is used to replace the adverb there and all prepositional expressions. (Non ne ho bisogno -- I have no
need of it). Ci and vi are used to replace an expression beginning with the preposition a (Ci penso/I think 
about it), as well as the adverb there (Ci vado/ I am going there).
When both direct and indirect object pronouns are used, the indirect object comes first, except in French for lui and leur.
Examples: Les lo conta, but Il le leur raconte. (Spanish/French: He tells it to them.)
In French, y and en come last. Example: Nous parlons à tout le monde de ce livre à Paris. Nous leur y en parlons.
(We tell everyone about this book in Paris. We tell them about it in Paris.) 
In Portuguese, the indirect and direct object pronouns contract to mo, ma, mos, mas (me with o, a, os, as), to, ta, tos, tas (te with o, a, os, as), to lho, lha, lhos, lhas (lhe and lhes with o, a, os, as), to no-lo, no-la, no-los, no-las (nos with o, a, os, as), and to vo-lo, vo-la, vo-los, vo-las (vos with o, a, os, as).
In Spanish, the indirect object pronouns le and les change to se when followed by lo, la, los, and las.  
Example: Yo se lo digo. (I tell it to him/her/them.)
Similarly, in Italian, ALL indirect object pronouns change, when followed by lo, la, li, le, and ne.  
Mi becomes me; ti becomes te; ci --> ce; vi --> ve; gli --> glie; ne --> ni.
Examples: Ce lo. (Italian: S/he gives it to us.)