1 1 me, te, nous, and vous are also used as indirect objects to mean to me, to you, to us, and to you respectively. 2  The pronoun form with an apostrophe is used before a vowel.3  The direct object pronoun for nous and vous is the same as the subject. The direct object pronoun for nous and vous is the same as the subject. 2  When the direct object comes before a verb in a perfect tense, a tense that uses a past participle, the direct object must agree in gender and plurality with the past participle.
A Spanish expedition led by Juan Diaz de Solis arrived in what is now Uruguay in 1516, but the people's fierce resistance to conquest, combined with the absence of gold and silver, limited settlement in the region during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Eventually in the 1820s the new state broke up. Bolivia became independent in 1825 and Uruguay was created as a buffer state between Argentina and Brazil in 1828 after a war between the two countries. In 1835 General Juan Manuel de Rosas became dictator of Argentina. He was a federalist but ironically he introduced a strong (and repressive) central government.