In West Iberian-Romance, the position of clitic object pronouns with respect to the verbs which govern them was flexible, but all Romance languages have since adopted a more strict syntax. The usual pattern is for clitics to precede the verb; e.g. Sp. "Yo te amo", Fr. "Je t'aime" "I love you"; Fr. "Tu m'avais dit" "You had told me" (proclisis). The opposite order occurs only with the imperative: Sp. "Dime", Fr. "Dis-moi" "Tell me" (enclisis). Spoken Brazilian Portuguese has taken more or less the same route, except that clitics usually appear between the auxiliary verb and the main verb in compound tenses, and proclisis is even more generalized: "Eu te amo" "I love you", but "Me diz" "Tell me", and "Você tinha me dito" "You had told me".