Learn Spanish (Latin America): No me gusta el chocolate.

No me gusta el chocolate.

I do not like chocolate.

Breakdown of No me gusta el chocolate.

no, not

to me / me (direct object)

Questions & Answers about No me gusta el chocolate.

Why do we say "me gusta" instead of "yo gusto"?

The verb gustar works backward compared to English. Instead of saying "I like chocolate", Spanish speakers literally say "Chocolate is pleasing to me". The me means "to me", and gusta means "is pleasing".

Where exactly does the "no" go when I want to say I don't like something?

The word no always goes immediately before the pronoun (me, te, le, etc.). The pronoun and the verb (me gusta) are a package deal and cannot be separated, so the no has to go at the very beginning of the phrase.

Why is there an "el" before "chocolate"? English just says "I don't like chocolate".

In Spanish, when you talk about your general likes, dislikes, or a broad category of things, you must include the definite article (el, la, los, or las). You are talking about chocolate in general, so it needs the el.

If I want to say "you do not like chocolate", does the word "gusta" change?

No, gusta stays exactly the same! Remember that gusta matches the thing being liked (the chocolate), not the person. To say "you don't like chocolate", you just change the pronoun from me (to me) to te (to you), making it no te gusta el chocolate.