Gustar ¿Te gusta mi coche? Sí, me gusta mucho. Verbo Gustar Use gustar to talk about what a person likes, or literally, what is pleasing to them. Gustar.

Gustar

¿Te gusta mi coche?

Sí, me gusta

mucho.

Verbo Gustar

• Use gustar to talk about what a person likes, or literally, what is “pleasing” to them.

• Gustar uses mainly AR conjugations

• It also HAS to be used with an indirect object pronoun

Verbo Gustar

• To say what I (yo) like, follow the following formula:• To say you like 1 thing:

• A mi me gusta….. (Singular)

• To say you like more than one thing (does not include actions):

A mi me gustan…. (plural)

Verbo Gustar

Por ejemplo:• A mí me gusta hacer la tarea• A mí me gusta nadar

• A mí me gustan los lápices• A mí me gustan las mochilas y las

plumas

Verbo Gustar

• Note: if what is liked is not a thing but an activity (expressed by a verb in the infinitive form), gustar is used in the 3rd person singular form- gusta.

• Wrong: Me gustan bailar y cantar• Correct: Me gusta bailar y cantar

Verbo Gustar

• To say what “you” (tú)like to follow the following formula…

• To say you like 1 thing:• A tí te gusta ….

• To say you like more than one thing (does not include actions):• A tí te gustan….

Verbo Gustar

• Por ejemplo• A tí te gusta ver la tele• A tí te gusta jugar los video juegos y

cantar• A tí te gustan los libros

Verbo Gustar- Asking questions

• How do you ask what someone likes or likes to do?

• Q: ¿ Qué te gusta hacer?• What do you like to do?

• A: Me gusta correr• I like to run

Verbo Gustar- Preguntas

How do you ask what someone doesn’t like or like to do?

Q: ¿Qué NO te gusta hacer?What do you NOT like to do?

A: A mí NO me gusta correrI DON’T like to run.

Gustar - preguntas

• How do you ask specific questions about likes and dislikes?

• Q: ¿ Te gusta pescar?• A: Sí, me gusta pescar. (No, no me

gusta pescar)

Verbo Gustar

• How do you say that you like something A LOT or NOT AT ALL

• Me gusta mucho ________• I like _________ a lot

• No me gusta NADA ______• I don’t like ______ at all

Ejemplos

• A mi me gusta bailar• A mi me gusta correr• A mi me gusta leer

• Me gusta bailar• Me gusta correr• Me gusta leer

Gustar- conversation• Ana ¿ Qué te gusta hacer?

• What do you like to do?

• Pedro: Me gusta correr• I like to run

• Juan: A mi también• Me too (I like it too)

Gustar- Conversation

• Ana ¿ Te gusta bailar?• Do you like to dance?

• Pedro: No, no me gusta bailar• No I don’t like to dance

− (No, no me gusta nada bailar)

• Juan: A mi tampoco• Me neither (I do not like it either)

Verbo Gustar- confusing sentences• No me gusta correr• I don’t like to run

• No, no me gusta correr• No, I don’t like to run

• No, me gusta correr• No, I like to run • ¿ Te gusta bailar?

Verbo Gustar What to you like to do more? (What is more pleasing to you?)

• ¿Qué Te gusta más? ¿bailar o cantar? (What do like best? To dance or to sing?)

• Me gusta más bailar. (I like more to dance)

• No me gusta ni bailar ni cantar. (I don’t like to dance nor to sing)

• Me gustan las dos. (I like to do both)

Gustar = to be pleasing

gustogustasgusta

gustamosgustáisgustan

Gustar is a completely regular -ar verb in its conjugation.

Gustar is used to express preferences, likes, and dislikes; however, gustar

means “to be pleasing,” and is constructed very differently from the

English “to like.”

The verb gustar is used exclusively with indirect

object pronouns

metele

nososles

Again, the verbs gustar, encantar, etc. are used exclusively with indirect object

pronouns

mete

le

nosos

les

(a mí)(a ti)

(a usted)(a él)(a ella)

(a nosotros)(a vosotros)

(a ustedes)(a ellos)(a ellas)

These are mandatory

(for clarification or emphasis)

The prepositional forms are optional

me gusta.El españolel español.

I like Spanish.

Spanish is pleasing to me.

Me gusta

It turns out, then, that the sentence in Spanish is exactly the reverse of that in English, in its sense,

and also in its word order.

I like it.In English, we say . . .

In Spanish, “it” becomes the subject of the sentence and we say instead . . .

It’s pleasing to me.

Gustar = to be pleasingIn Spanish, the thing or things that we like are

expressed as being “pleasing to us.”

. . . where “it” is the

direct object.

“I” is then expressed as the indirect object phrase “to me.”

I like Spanish.

Spanish is pleasing to me.

El español gusta me.But, of course, in Spanish, pronouns must be placed before conjugated verbs.

me gusta.In Spanish, this would literally be . . .

Now, it so happens that, by convention, the subject (in this case El español) is generally placed at the end of the sentence with this type of construction.

Let’s start by talking about something we all like.

Following the format on the previous slide, we would say . . .

gustogustasgusta

Since most of the things or people that please us are expressed in third person, the two forms of gustar that are used most commonly are gusta and gustan

gustamosgustáisgustan

Nos gusta el flan que hace la abuela.

No le gustan los huevos.

We like the flan that grandma makes.

She doesn’t like eggs.

Of course, it is possible to use other forms. Gustas, for example is used frequently.

Me gustas (tú).You please me. (I like you.)

When gustar is used with one or more infinitives, only the third person singular is used.

Me gusta leer.Me gusta leer, jugar fútbol, y

viajar.

Me gusta ese restaurante.

Gustar is used with indirect object pronouns

I like that restaurant.

¿Te gusta el té helado?Do you like iced tea?

Le gustan mucho las zanahorias.He likes carrots a lot.No nos gusta el yogur.We don’t like yogurt.

Les gusta cenar en casa.They like to eat dinner at home.

Gustar

Verbo Gustar

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Verbo gustar versus me encanta

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