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

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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