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¿Ustedes quieren esos perfumes? Se los recomiendo.

¿Ustedes quieren esos perfumes? Se los recomiendo.
Do you want those perfumes? I recommend them to you.
From Lesson 82:The 'se lo' rule (se lo, se la)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about ¿Ustedes quieren esos perfumes? Se los recomiendo.

Why does the sentence say Se los instead of Les los?
In Spanish, you cannot put le or les directly in front of lo, la, los, or las. When this happens, the first pronoun changes to se to make it easier to say. Here, "to you all" would normally be les, but it changes to se to avoid the awkward "les los" sound.
Who does the se refer to in this sentence?
Here, se means "to you" (plural). It refers back to Ustedes from the first question. The speaker is saying "I recommend them to you all."
What does the los stand for?
los means "them" and replaces esos perfumes (those perfumes). Because perfumes is a masculine, plural noun, we have to use the masculine, plural pronoun los.
Why is the verb recomiendo at the very end?
recomiendo means "I recommend". In Spanish, object pronouns like se and los almost always go immediately before the conjugated verb. You also do not need the word yo (I) here, because the -o ending of recomiendo already makes it clear who is recommending.

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