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Today we're finally going to learn the verb for talking about liking things in Spanish.

So we can say things like, I like this kind of food.

Or why didn't you like that?

But this is going to take a bit of work

because there are some important nuances to using this new verb.

The verb is gustar, and it means something like, to like, or more literally, to be pleasing.

Let's demonstrate with an example.

To say, she likes this food, the Spanish is...

This food. Literally this sentence means this food is pleasing to her.

But the unexpected thing is that this is the right way to translate the idea of liking something from English into Spanish.

And actually, a more common way of structuring this sentence looks like this.

The subject is still this food.

So it would be, to her, is pleasing, this food.

For most English speakers, it takes quite a bit of reprogramming to make this feel natural.

See if you can predict how to do the same thing with this next sentence.

We'll go through it one step at a time, first by restructuring the

English. So we'll begin with, he likes my dog. So how would you restructure that? To make it work for our new

verb, gustar, you actually have to make the dog the subject because in Spanish the dog is the one

doing the act of being pleasing. So we'll restructure it to, my dog is pleasing to him.

So the Spanish would be, my perro le gusta. But then in sentences that use gustar, the subject tends to be at the end of the sentence.

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