Learn Spanish (Latin America): El ilusionista te hace chasquear los dedos. - The illusionist makes you snap your fingers.

In causative structures like hacer or dejar plus an infinitive, the object pronoun belongs to the main conjugated verb (hace) rather than the infinitive. It is placed immediately before the conjugated verb.

Is the pronoun te acting as a direct or an indirect object in this sentence?

It acts as an indirect object here. The rule for causatives is: if the infinitive verb takes its own direct object (in this case, los dedos), the person being made to do the action becomes the indirect object. If there were no direct object involved, like in el ilusionista te hace saltar, the pronoun te would be a direct object.

Why does the sentence use los dedos instead of tus dedos if I am snapping my own fingers?

As a quick refresher, Spanish uses definite articles (el, la, los, las) instead of possessive adjectives (tus) for body parts when the owner is already obvious. Because the pronoun te already establishes that the action is happening to you, using tus would feel redundant.

What exactly does the verb chasquear mean?