Breakdown of La professora els explica la resposta després de l'examen.
Questions & Answers about La professora els explica la resposta després de l'examen.
Here els means to them. It is an indirect object pronoun, so it marks the people who receive the explanation.
So the structure is:
- La professora = the teacher
- els = to them
- explica = explains
- la resposta = the answer
A very literal version would be: The teacher to-them explains the answer after the exam.
Because Catalan object pronouns usually go before a conjugated verb.
So Catalan says:
- els explica
not:
- explica els for this meaning
This is one of the biggest differences from English. English normally puts to them after the verb, but Catalan uses a short pronoun before it.