Gustar y verbos similares The backwards verbs
El verbo gustar En español gustar significa “to be pleasing” In English, the equivalent is “to like”
El verbo gustar Por ejemplo: In English we say: “I like Spanish.” En español decimos: “To me, Spanish is pleasing.”
I like basketball. En español: In English: “basketball” is the subject “I” is the subject “like” is the verb “basketball” is the direct object (thing that is pleasing to person) En español: “basketball” is the subject “to please” is the verb “me” is the indirect object (person who is doing the liking)
El Verbo Gustar The form of the verb gustar (gusta or gustan) does not depend on who does the liking, but depends on what is liked or what is pleasing.
Who is doing the “liking”? El verbo gustar Who is doing the “liking”? Indirect Object Pronouns (person to whom it is pleasing):
El verbo gustar
Construcción singular de GUSTAR (A mí) me (A ti) te (A él/ella/Ud.) le …el libro GUSTA …nadar (A nosotros) nos …el chocolate (A ellos/as) les
Construcción plural de GUSTAR (A mí) me (A ti) te (A él/ella/Ud.) le …los libros GUSTAN (A nosotros) nos …los árboles (A ellos/ellas, Uds.) les
Otros verbos como GUSTAR The following verbs are conjugated just like gustar : encantar to love, like a lot, faltar to lack, be missing; to be in need of fascinar to fascinate, to be fascinated by molestar to bother; to be bothered by interesar to interest; to be interested by importar to care about; to matter, to be important to
Por ejemplo (A mí) me gusta la fruta. Fruit is pleasing to me. (I like fruit) (A mí) me importan las notas. My grades matter to me.