No sé cómo esto le va a afectar a usted.
I do not know how this is going to affect you.
Encantado de conocerles.
Pleased to meet you.
Le/Les is preferred with psychological verbs, especially when the subject is
an inanimate noun or a clause (e.g. molestar‘to bother’, preocupar/in-
quietar ‘to worry’; also creer ‘to believe’, entender ‘to understand’). This is
common throughout the Spanish-speaking world:
Le molesta la luz del sol.
The sunlight is bothering him.
Le preocupa que el niño pese tan poco.
She is worried because the boy weighs so little.
Le/Lesis required after seused impersonally, when the object is human
(obligatory in Spain, usual in Latin America):
Se le considera un autor importante.
He is considered to be an important author.
Lesfor los(‘them’, male persons) is used commonly in central and northern
Spain:
Les llevaron a su casa. [SP]
They took them to their home.
Note: Especially in central and northern Spain, lamay be encountered in place of
lewhen the reference is to femalehuman beings: Dila que venga‘Tell her to come’.
This usage, known as laísmo, is not recognized by the Spanish Academy.
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