Hi Everyone,
I'm brand new to this forum and I am trying to learn Spanish using RosettaStone. They do not use any English to explain things, only spanish with the pictures. I think that's probably beneficial for most people, but the type of memory I have would actually make it easier to know the grammatical rules for things so that I can extrapolate usage of the words appropriately to other examples and contexts aside from the exact ones given to me. So, here's my question:
"Ellos le ayudan a su abuelo."
I believe this means "They help their grandfather" (correct me if I'm wrong), but here's what's tripping me up...why isn't it "Ellos se ayudan a su abuelo?" From what I've been able to gather, if the IO of the sentence is "su abuelo" you would typically use se, is that correct? What am I missing?
ETA:
Thank you everyone so much for the help! I am still so confused. If I were to say "Yo te compré las joyas" that would translate as "I bought the jewelry for you" (In the same sentence order, "I for you bought the jewelry") correct? From what I understood from my extremely limited knowledge, I believed te to be the reflexive in this sentence showing who is receiving the jewelry...is that correct? But everything I'm reading from your comments and the link you gave say that reflexives are used when the action is happening to yourself. So is te not a reflexive? Or was the sentence I gave incorrect entirely?