« Quelqu'un m'a dit... » "Someone told me..." Direct-object pronouns Like the English him, her, it, and them, the pronouns le, la, and les are only used with definite direct objects. For indefinite ones (e.g., "some juice"), en is used; see "The pronoun en" below. Le, la, and les are not used when the direct object refers to the same entity as the subject; see the section on the reflexive pronouns, below. Examples: (I have a book.) I am giving it to the teacher. « Je le donne au prof. » (Danielle is my sister.) Have you seen her? « Est-ce que tu l'as vue ? » Indirect-object pronouns In French, an indirect object is an object of a verb that is introduced using a preposition (especially the preposition à). For example, in the sentence « J'ai parlé à Jean » ("I spoke to Jean"), Jean is the indirect object in the French sentence. Indirect-object pronouns (or dative pronouns) generally only replace indirect objects with the preposition à. When an indirect object pronoun is used, it replaces the entire prepositional phrase; for example, « Je lui ai donné un livre » ("I gave him a book"). Broadly speaking, lui and leur are used to refer to people, and y (see "The pronoun y" below) is used to refer to things. However, lui and leur will sometimes also be used in referring to things. Lui, leur, and y are replaced with se (s before a vowel) when the indirect object refers to the same entity as the subject; see the section on the reflexive pronouns below. As mentioned above, the indirect object pronouns are not always used to replace indirect objects: They are not used when the preposition is de rather than à; but see the section on the pronoun en, below. Some verbs are incompatible with indirect object pronouns, such as penser ("to think about") and all reflexive verbs. For example, one says, « Je me fie à lui » ("I put my trust in him"), not « * Je me lui fie ». Reflexive pronouns In French, as in English, reflexive pronouns are used in place of direct- and indirect-object pronouns that refer to the same entity or entities as the subject. A verb with a reflexive pronoun is called a reflexive verb, and has many grammatical particularities aside from the choice of pronoun; see French verbs. There are