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For many people learning spanish, youโll notice how some verbs can be very tricky and not conjugated in the same way as most verbs. One of the most popular tricky vers is โgustarโ which means โto likeโ. Letโs dive into it.
Normally you would conjugate a verb so it changes according to gender, pronoun and if itโs singular or plural. But when it comes to verbs like โgustarโ itโs a bit different.
Normally when you conjugate a verb itโs conjugated using subject pronouns, as you see in the example below.
Example 1:
Me hablo con mi amigo - Iโm talking with my friend (here the verb hablar is conjugated in the first person singular and therefore changes to hablo).
But then there are verbs like gustar, aburrir, disgustar, parecer, doler, encantar, faltar, volver and more. These all operate in a different way when we conjugate them, and Iโm gonna use the verb gustar as an example.
You conjugate the verb depending on the direct object.
Example 1:
Me gusta la habitaciรณn - I like the room (The direct translation would be: The room is pleasing to me - In this example me is an indirect object and room is the direct object).
Example 2:
Me gustan los libros - I like the books (Normally you would think that it would be โMe gustoโ but that is wrong since the subject of the sentence is โLos librosโ and the verb is conjugated to agree with the subject, even though it comes at the end of the sentence. โLos libros - The booksโ is third person plural and therefore gustar is conjugated to gustan).
I hope this helped you understand how some verbs operate in a different way than most verbs.
Hasta luego!