"If the dog likes sticks, let's give him one."

Translation: Si le chien aime les bâtons, donnons-lui-en un.

[Hermione256]

Man, this one is tricky. How do you know which order to put "lui" "en" and "un"?

[Scott495798]

Me too - a rule would be nice!

[Hermione256]

LOL I just came back here, only to see that I struggled with this three weeks ago, too!

[InvertedGo]

The order for prepositions in the imperative form is as follows:

1) conjugated imperative verb

2) le/la/les

3) moi/toi/lui/nous/vous/leur

4) y/en

Note: the order is different when the verb is negated

And here is my source:
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/double-pronoun-order/

[InvertedGo]

Since "un" is not a preposition it would have to come after any them.

[Shannon337947]

Prepositions? Do you mean pronouns?

[Shannon337947]

Prepositions? Do you mean pronouns?

[VicReadies]

I'm still getting les and des mixed up !

[AndySunshi]

I dont even understand why there is both "en" and "un".

Im gonna call it another case of "thats just the wordy way the french say it"

[stupefaite]

It (= en un) means one of them, whereas en will mean some.

So in the above sentence one of them refers to one of the sticks.

[4ledger]

My answer without a hyphen is now accepted. What is happening?

[JamesPyrah]

Confused- I thought for let's give, you needed to say donnons nous. Anyone clarify? Thanks.

[Scott495798]

In this case, donnons is in the impératif so it doesn't need nous.

[neko_sapiens]

Why do I seem to hear [z] pronounced with -en here? ... donons-lui-[z]en un.

[Citi93758]

Why can't you say "donnons l'en un"?