La secretaria me pidió remitir el informe por correo electrónico antes del viernes.

Me is the indirect object pronoun meaning to me.

So:

• La secretaria me pidió... = The secretary asked me...

It shows who received the request. In fuller English, you could think of it as asked me to...

Pidió is the preterite (simple past) form of pedir, meaning asked.

It is used because the sentence refers to a completed action in the past: the secretary asked at a specific moment.

A few useful points:

• pedir = to ask for / to request
• pidió = he/she asked, he/she requested
• The stem changes from e to i in this form:
  pedir → pidió

Compare:

• me pidió = asked me / requested
• me pedía = was asking me / used to ask me

So pidió fits a single completed request.

Because Spanish can use pedir + person + infinitive to mean ask someone to do something.

So:

• me pidió remitir el informe = she asked me to send/forward the report

This structure is especially common in more formal or administrative language.

A very common alternative is:

• La secretaria me pidió que remitiera el informe.

That version uses que + subjunctive and is often more natural in everyday speech.

Both are correct here.

Yes. Remitir and enviar are close in meaning here, but remitir sounds more formal.

• remitir = to send / forward / submit
• enviar = to send

In office, legal, or administrative Spanish, remitir is very common.
In more everyday speech, many people would probably say:

• La secretaria me pidió enviar el informe...
• or more naturally, La secretaria me pidió que enviara el informe...

So remitir is not wrong at all—it just has a more formal tone.

Spanish usually uses the definite article more often than English.

Here, el informe means the report—a specific report that the people involved already know about.

So:

• el informe = the report

Leaving out the article would sound incomplete or unnatural in this sentence.

Por correo electrónico means by email or via email.

Spanish often uses por to express the means or method of doing something:

• por teléfono = by phone
• por internet = online / via the internet
• por correo electrónico = by email

This is the standard expression in formal Spanish.

Also, there is no article here because after por with means of communication, Spanish often omits it.

You can hear email, e-mail, or mail in informal speech, but correo electrónico is the more standard and formal expression.

In a sentence like this, especially with formal wording such as remitir, correo electrónico fits very well.

So:

• por correo electrónico = more standard/formal
• por email = more informal/colloquial

Because del is the contraction of de + el.

In Spanish, days of the week often appear with the article when referring to a specific day:

• el viernes = Friday / the coming Friday / that Friday

After de, el contracts:

• de el viernes → del viernes

So:

• antes del viernes = before Friday

That is the normal form here.

Usually no.

Antes del viernes means before Friday arrives, so in practice it normally means by Thursday at the latest.

If you want to include Friday, Spanish would more naturally say something like:

• para el viernes = by Friday / for Friday
• a más tardar el viernes = no later than Friday

So this sentence suggests the report had to be sent before Friday, not on Friday.

Yes, absolutely.

That version means the same thing:

• La secretaria me pidió que remitiera el informe por correo electrónico antes del viernes.

This uses que + subjunctive after pedir, which is extremely common.

Very roughly:

• me pidió remitir... = slightly more formal, condensed
• me pidió que remitiera... = very common, often more natural in ordinary speech

Both are correct.

Because me belongs to pidió, not to remitir.

Here:

• me pidió = asked me

If you attach me to remitir, you get remitirme, which changes the meaning:

• me pidió remitir el informe = she asked me to send the report
• pidió remitirme el informe = she asked to send the report to me

So the pronoun position matters a lot here.

Because it refers to a female secretary.

In Spanish, job titles often change form depending on the person's gender:

• el secretario = the male secretary
• la secretaria = the female secretary

So La secretaria tells you the person is a woman.

Yes, it sounds fairly formal, mainly because of:

• remitir
• correo electrónico
• the compact structure me pidió remitir...

A more everyday version might be:

• La secretaria me pidió que enviara el informe por email antes del viernes.

That said, the original sentence is completely natural, especially in workplace, administrative, or professional contexts.