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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to practice the Spanish verb,

Encanter, which means something like to enchant.

Here's the most common use of this verb.

Those books enchanted me when I was a kid.

Those books me when she was a kid.

So what the speaker here means is that she greatly enjoyed those books when she was a kid.

Notice the structure of the sentence.

The subject is the books, and the person who's speaking, me, is the recipient of the enchantment.

Here's another example where we're going to use a third person.

That place enchants him.

That place he enchant's him. Ese Lugar Le Encanta.

Hmm, so why do we use Le instead of lo?

And anyway, why is the verb for enchant so common in Spanish?

Well, first of all,

Encantar takes indirect objects and not direct objects.

In that way, it's a lot like gustar, importar, and doler.

And then the reason that this verb is so common is because it actually isn't typically translated as enchant.

Instead, what it tends to mean is that something is very, very pleasing to someone, or that someone enjoys it very much.

Compare these two sentences.

I like that movie.

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