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Connect with us. Once you've learned about using plural subjects with gustar , you may encounter sentences that look like they contain a grammatical error, such as the following:. Art and music are two things, right?
Shouldn't gusta singular really be gustan plural? Not always. Things get a little messy when y is used in the subject. The official rule comes down to "countability. Me gustan el vestido y la cartera. I like the dress and the purse. If your subjects are non-countable abstract, indefinite , you should treat them as singular and use gusta :.
I like technology and fashion. Regardless of grammar, you're more likely to see and hear the singular gusta when the subject has an y in it, even if the subject is countable. If you use me , te , nos , or os as your indirect object pronoun, the meaning of the sentence should be clear. However, if you use le or les , it's not readily apparent whom you're talking about.
For instance, how would you translate these sentences? Le gustan los libros. The first sentence could be translated "He likes books," "She likes books," or even "You Ud. He likes books. Books are pleasing to him. She likes movies. Movies are pleasing to her. Do you like the songs? Are the songs pleasing to you? Even if we don't need to, we always use an indirect object pronoun with gustar. In a similar way, if you need to include someone's name in the sentence, you'll start with a followed by their name, and you'll still use the indirect object pronoun:.
A Elena le gustan los zapatos. Elena likes shoes. Shoes are pleasing to Elena. A Marcos le gustan los videojuegos. Marcos likes video games. Video games are pleasing to Marcos. A Rodrigo y Felipe les gusta su escuela. Rodrigo and Felipe like their school. Their school is pleasing to Rodrigo and Felipe. Remember that the a is necessary because even though Elena, Marcos, Rodrigo and Felipe are at the beginning of the sentence, they're the objects of the sentence, not the subjects.
We can also use a and a prepositional pronoun where it would otherwise be unnecessary in order to emphasize whose opinion you're discussing:. You like Coca Cola? Me, I like Pepsi. Normally to turn a sentence into a question we move the subject from the beginning of the sentence to the end. With gustar the subject is already at the end of the sentence, so all we need to do is add the question marks:. Simply pair gusta with an infinitive to say that you like doing something.
No need to conjugate twice:. Do you like to play golf? He would like the food. Gustar is typically used to state that you like things, not that you like people. You're better off re-wording things or using the phrase caer bien :. Caer bien literally means "to fall well," but in this context would be more like "to leave a good impression.
While we're on the subject of gustar , there are a number of other verbs which work similarly. The following verbs all take an indirect object pronoun and they usually come in front of the subject :.
Me duele la espalda. My back hurts. My back is painful to me. He loves the lemonade! The lemonade is enchanting to him! Juat like the verb gusta, gustan is also used irrespective of the indirect object. To be clear, if the main subject is in plural and the indirect object is a single object, gustan will always be used. Also the person saying the statement or the person referred in the statement will always be considered as an indirect object.
In the first example stated above, the indirect object is a single person I while the main subject is in plural pens and thus gustan is used. In the second example, the main subject is in plural buildings and the indirect object is also in plural they and so gustan is used. Gustan is also independent of the pronouns used in the sentences. For example, just like that in gusta, gustan will be used for me, te, nos I, you, we , if the subject is in plural or is more than one object.
Gusta and Gustan are Spanish verbs and the main verb is gustar. Gusta is used when the subject is singular whereas gustan is used when the subject is in plural or more than one. They are not dependent on the indirect subject in the sentence or on the pronouns used. It can be only determined to whether use gusta or gustan in a sentence by analysing if the main subject is plural or singular. Skip to content Gusta and gustan are two different Spanish verbs.
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