TLE: Lesson - El verbo gustar

El verbo gustar

The verb gustar is often used in common topics to express likes, dislikes, agreements, or disagreements. If you look up the verb gustar in a dictionary, you’ll get translations such as “to like,” “to taste,” “to enjoy” and “to be pleasing,” among others.

Instead of changing according to the pronoun, gustar changes depending on the quantity of the noun (number - singular or plural) that follows it. This is why we say gusta for singular objects and gustan for plural.

Video Lesson

A notebook and pen with ¡Toma apuntes! written on it.

To get started with this lesson, we will learn a fun song together ¡Vamos a cantar! (Let´s sing!)

The purpose of this video lesson is for you to understand more about the verb gustar and its relation to pronouns in Spanish.

Feel free to press pause and repeat and take notes.

Video credit: Cyber Profe

How to Conjugate gustar

Just like me, I bet you are already singing “me – te - le, nos - os - les” … 😊 🎵 That´s great because now you know gustar only has two possible forms (gusta and gustan), depending on whether the subject is singular or plural and that verb gustar requires an indirect object, which answers the question “to what?” or “to whom?”

Here’s a breakdown of how to conjugate it:

Conjugation of gustar
Object Pronoun / Prepositional Phrase
Spanish English Translation
A mí Me gusta
Me gustan
I like
Literally: It is pleasing to me.
A ti Te gusta
Te gustan
You (singular, informal) like
A ella/él
A usted
Le gusta
Le gustan
He/She likes
You (singular, formal) like
A nosotros/nosotras Nos gusta
Nos gustan
We like
A vosotros/vosotras Os gusta
Os gustan
You (plural, informal) like
A ellos/ellas
A ustedes
Les gusta
Les gustan
They like
You (plural, formal) like

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