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¡Sácala, por favor!

¡Sácala, por favor!
Take it out, please!
From Lesson 61:Affirmative commands (tú, vosotros)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of ¡Sácala, por favor!

por favor
please
la
it / her (f)
sacar
to take out

Questions & Answers about ¡Sácala, por favor!

Why is the verb saca and not sacas?
Because this is a command (the imperative) telling someone to do something. For regular verbs, the informal tú command is formed by taking the normal present tense sacas and dropping the final s, making it look exactly like the he/she/it form.
Why is la attached to the end of the verb?
When you give a positive command (telling someone to do something), object pronouns like la must be attached directly to the end of the verb, creating a single word. In a normal statement, the pronoun would go before the verb, but affirmative commands always attach it to the end.
Why does sácala have a written accent mark when saca does not?
Adding the extra syllable la to the end of the verb changes where the natural stress would fall when spoken. To keep the emphasis on the original stressed syllable (the first a in saca), Spanish requires us to add a written accent mark.
Why do we use la to mean 'it' here?
In Spanish, all nouns have a gender. la is a feminine pronoun, which means 'it' in this sentence must refer to a feminine noun that was mentioned earlier, like la basura (the trash) or la caja (the box). If 'it' referred to a masculine noun, you would use lo and say sácalo.

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