Cornell Notes: p. 62 The verb gustar, ¿por qué?

And porque

Topics
The verb gustar
To ask what someone likes
Conjugation
Le and les are referring to who?
Example
To ask who is being talked about
Negative sentences
¿Por qué? Vs. porque
Notes
• We use the verb gustar to express what
people like.
• If the thing being liked is singular, we use
gusta.
• If the thing being liked is plural, we use
gustan
• To ask what someone likes, we use ¿Qué te
gusta
• This is the verb chart for gustar. It must be
memorized.
•
Me gusta= I like Nos gusta= we like
Te gusta= you like Os gusta = you all like
Le gusta= he likes Les gusta = they like
=she likes = you all like
=you like
=it likes
Notice that “le” can stand for you, he, she
or it likes.
• Notice that “les” can stand for you all like
or they like.
• In order to decipher who is doing the
liking, there is usually an “A name” put
in the sentence.
• A María le gusta la pizza.
• Maria likes the pizza.
• A Mario y A Juan les gustan las películas
• Mario and Juan like movies.
• ¿A quién le gusta la pizza?
• Who likes pizza?
• ¿A quiénes les gustan las películas?
• Who all likes movies?
• Put a “No” in front of the pronoun to
make a sentence negative (ex. No me
gusta el libro.)
• To ask why use ¿por qué?
• To say because, use porque