1. Gustar y verbos similares
The backwards verbs

2. El verbo gustar En español gustar significa “to be pleasing”
In English, the equivalent is “to like”

3. El verbo gustar Por ejemplo: In English we say: “I like Spanish.”
En español decimos: “To me, Spanish
is pleasing.”

4. 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)

5. 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.

6. Who is doing the “liking”?
El verbo gustar
Who is doing the “liking”?
Indirect Object Pronouns
(person to whom it is pleasing):

7. El verbo gustar

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.