1. Gustar
¿Te gusta mi coche?
Sí, me gusta mucho.

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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….

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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 correr
I DON’T like to run.

10. 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)

11. 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

12. Ejemplos A mi me gusta bailar A mi me gusta correr A mi me gusta leer

13. Gustar- conversation Ana ¿ Qué te gusta hacer? Pedro: Me gusta correr
What do you like to do?
Pedro: Me gusta correr
I like to run
Juan: A mi también
Me too (I like it too)

14. 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)

15. 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?

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

17. Gustar is a completely regular -ar verb in its conjugation.
Gustar = to be pleasing
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.”
Gustar is a completely regular -ar verb in its conjugation.
gusto
gustas
gusta
gustamos
gustáis
gustan

18. The verb gustar is used exclusively with indirect object pronounsme
nos te os le
les

19. (for clarification or emphasis)
Again, the verbs gustar, encantar, etc. are used exclusively with indirect object pronouns
These are mandatory me te le
nos os
les
(a mí)
(a ti)
(a usted)
(a él)
(a ella)
(a nosotros)
(a vosotros)
(a ustedes)
(a ellos)
(a ellas)
The prepositional forms are optional
(for clarification or emphasis)

20. I like Spanish. Spanish is pleasing to me. Me gusta me gusta.
el español.
El español
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.

21. I like it. It’s pleasing to me. Gustar = to be pleasing
In Spanish, the thing or things that we like are expressed as being “pleasing to us.”
. . . where “it” is the direct object.
In English, we say . . .
I like it.
In Spanish, “it” becomes the subject of the sentence and we say instead . . .
It’s pleasing to me.
“I” is then expressed as the indirect object phrase “to me.”

22. Let’s start by talking about something we all like.
I like Spanish.
Following the format on the previous slide, we would say . . .
Spanish
is pleasing
to me.
In Spanish, this would literally be . . .
me gusta.
El español
gusta
me.
But, of course, in Spanish, pronouns must be placed before conjugated verbs.
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.

23. 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
gusto
gustas
gusta
gustamos
gustáis
gustan
Nos gusta el flan que hace la abuela.
We like the flan that grandma makes.
No le gustan los huevos.
She doesn’t like eggs.

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

27. Gustar is used with indirect object pronouns
Me gusta ese restaurante.
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.

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