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Gustar y los verbossimilaresMiniprueba: Objetos indirectos y directos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSlightly disturbing.......

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El Mundo en 2 minutos: Argentina

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Otro uso de los objetos indirectos

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Se usa los objetos indirectos con el gustar

Me gusta el verano. Summer is pleasing to me/Summer pleases me/I like summ

Me gustan las vacaciones. Vacations are pleasing to me/I like vacations.

But its not all about you, and you can do more ththings.

Singular thing that you like, singular form of the verb

Plural thingthat you like,plural verb

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Word order in Spanish is moreflexible.

El verano me gusta.

Las vacaciones me gustan.

Use this structure if its easier to see how the verb relatesto the noun in the first part of the sentence.

The meaning is exactly the same.

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First, the other people

Nos gusta comer. When you talk about what you like to DO, you use the infthe verb, and and its singular, even if its more than one

Nos gusta correr y nadar.

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Un poco de confusin

Le gusta bailar. To whom does LE refer?

Sometimes its necessary to be redundant. So youll have the pronoun AND the name of the pe

the pronoun replaces.

Youll need the personal A, the persons name and the indirect object pronoun. The wordorder is flexible.

Le gusta bailar a Laura.

A Laura le gusta bailar..

Laura likes to dance [Dancing is liked

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Handout about preferences

Ask the question Te gusta.....?

Answer... Me gusta / No me gusta.....

Record...ANAME le gusta / A NAME no le gustabe ready to tell me what he / she likes

A m me...... A more emphatic way of stressing what I like

A ti te.... A more emphatic way of stating what you

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Los verbos como gustar

Gustar is not the only verb that operates in this way and thatneeds an Indirect object pronoun.

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Verbs that work like gustar

AburrirDoler

Importar Asustar

Interesar Faltar

Molestar Encantar

Fascinar

MeTeLeNosLes

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Dolerwhat hurts you

Me duele la cabeza. My head hurts me.

Ayer ella corri mucho y ahora le duelen las piernas.

Yesterday she ran a lot and now her legs hurt her.

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Importarwhats important to you

A los estudiantes les importan las notas?

Are grades important to students?

No me importaI dont care.

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InteresarWhats interesting to yo

A mi padre le interesa la poltica.

Politics are interesting to my father.

A mi hermano le interesan los deportes.

Sports are interesting to my brother.

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MolestarWhat bothers or annoys yo

Me molestan los insectos.

Insects bother me.

Me molestan las personas ignorantes.

Ignorant people are annoying to me.

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Fascinarwhats fascinating to you

Me fascina viajar.

Travelling fascinates me.

A mis padres no les fascinan las computadoras.

Computers dont fascinate my parents.

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Aburrirwhat youre bored by

Me aburren los libros de Twilight.

The Twilight books bore me. (Seriously, the writer only knows 4 adjectives.)

A los profesores nos aburren las reuniones largas.

Professors are bored by long meetings.

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AsustarWhat frightens you

No me asustan los perros.

Dogs dont frighten me.

Al nio le asusta la noche.

The boy is afraid of the night /the dark.

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Faltarwhat youre needing, lackin

Me falta dormir.

I need sleep. Sleep is needed by me.

A mi mam le faltan zapatos nuevos.

My mom needs new shoes. New shoes are lacked by my mom.

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Encantarwhat you really like, lo

Me encanta viajar.

I love to travel. Travel is loved by me.

Te encantan los deportes.

You love sports. Sports are loved by you.

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Las reacciones

las matemticas

los gatos

el fro

el chocolate

el bisbol

esquiar

dormir

la historia

los hombres guapos

las pelculas dehorror

las pelculas romnticas

el espaol

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