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Hago la comida y tú la comes.

Hago la comida y tú la comes.
I make the food and you eat it.
From Lesson 59:Direct object pronouns (lo, la, los, las)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Hago la comida y tú la comes.

I see the word la twice in this sentence. Are they doing the same thing?
Nope! They look exactly the same, but they have different jobs. The first la means "the" in la comida (the food). The second la is a direct object pronoun meaning "it". It replaces the food in the second half of the sentence so you do not have to repeat the word.
Why does la come before the verb comes? In English we say "eat it", not "it eat".
In Spanish, direct object pronouns like lo, la, los, and las almost always go directly before the main action verb. So "you eat it" becomes tú la comes.
Why does the sentence use tú (you) but drop the Spanish word for "I" (yo)?
In Spanish, you can usually leave out words like yo and tú because the verb ending already tells us who is doing the action (hago means "I make", comes means "you eat"). However, the speaker included tú here to create a strong contrast: I do the cooking, and YOU do the eating!
What verb does hago come from?
It comes from hacer, which means "to make" or "to do". For most verbs, the "I" form just ends in -o, but hacer is a little irregular. Its "I" form is hago (I make), while the other forms are regular, like haces (you make).

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