Word
Me gusta actuar con mis amigos en el teatro del barrio.
Meaning
I like to act with my friends in the neighborhood theater.
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Breakdown of Me gusta actuar con mis amigos en el teatro del barrio.
el amigo
the friend
yo
I
gustar
to like
en
in
Questions & Answers about Me gusta actuar con mis amigos en el teatro del barrio.
Why is it me gusta and not yo gusto?
In Spanish, gustar doesn’t work like “to like” in English.
Literally, me gusta actuar means “acting pleases me”, not “I like acting”.
- me = to me (indirect object pronoun)
- gusta = pleases (3rd person singular)
- actuar = acting / to act (this is the thing that “pleases” you)
So the thing you like (here, actuar) is the grammatical subject, and me shows who it pleases.
You don’t say yo gusto actuar in Spanish; that sounds like “I am pleasing to act”, which is wrong.
Correct patterns are:
- Me gusta actuar. – I like to act.
- Te gusta actuar. – You like to act.
- Nos gusta actuar. – We like to act.
When do I use gusta vs gustan?