Present tense spanish question

Question

Present tense

Mis amigos ______ mandan mensajes por instagram

Answer 1

This sentence is a complete sentence without the blank, because it just means "My friends send messages over instagram." Technically, that is a complete sentence, but it leads to the question, "Who do they send messages to?" or "A quien están mandando mensajes?" So, the blank needs an indirect object pronoun, answering the question, "to whom?" So, depending on what the sentence is actually trying to say, any of these would make sense:

Mis amigos me mandan mensajes por Instagram. (to me)

Mis amigos te mandan mensajes por Instagram. (to you)

Mis amigos le mandan mensajes por Instagram. (to her/him)

Mis amigos nos mandan mensajes por Instagram. (to us)

Mis amigos les mandan mensajes por Instagram. (to them)

Mis amigos se mandan mensajes por Instagram. (to each other)

Answer 2

La respuesta es en presente verbos reflexivos:

Los verbos reflexivos son verbos transitivos cuya acción recae sobre el mismo sujeto que la realiza. (me, te, se, nos, os, se).

por lo que ya no usamos los sujetos del pronombre personal se sustituyen por los mencionados anteriormente.

saludos!!

Answer 3

The blank is for the indirect object pronoun, "me".

The question has to do with an indirect object pronoun.

Mis amigos me mandan mensajes por instagram.

A good way to know that you didn't need a verb in the blank space is because the sentence already had a conjugated verb, "mandan". So, you need to think about what can go before conjugate verbs. Definite articles, indefinite articles, conjugated verbs, and possessive adjectives can not go before conjugated verbs. You are left with: Direct, indirect, or reflexive verbs. Here is when you look at the verb and see if it is a reflexive, in this case it is not. Typically, you can send something to someone. The something is the direct object, the someone is theigndirect object. Since you know that they are sending messages, the messages are the direct object. Through process of elimination you know that it should be an indirect object pronoun. I would argue that without much more context, the following would also be correct:

Mis amigos te mandan mensajes...

mis amigos le mandan mensajes...

Mis amigos nos mandan mensajes..

Mis amigos les mandan mensajes...