Learn Spanish (Latin America): Me gusta dibujar en el parque porque es tranquilo. - I like to draw in the park because it is quiet.

Me gusta dibujar en el parque porque es tranquilo.

I like to draw in the park because it is quiet.

Breakdown of Me gusta dibujar en el parque porque es tranquilo.

Questions & Answers about Me gusta dibujar en el parque porque es tranquilo.

Why is it gusta and not gusto if I am the one who likes it?

In Spanish, gustar works differently than the English verb to like. It actually means to be pleasing to. So Me gusta dibujar translates literally to: To draw is pleasing to me. Since the action of drawing (dibujar) is the thing that is pleasing, we use the it form of the verb, which is gusta.

What does the me in this sentence do?

Me is an indirect object pronoun. Because gustar means to be pleasing to, you need this pronoun to show exactly who it is pleasing to. In this sentence, me means to me.

Why do we use the unconjugated verb dibujar here?

When you want to say you like doing an action, you use gustar followed by the infinitive form of the verb, which is the base dictionary form ending in -ar, -er, or -ir. Here, dibujar represents the action of drawing.

Why does the sentence use es instead of está for the park?

You might remember that estar is used to say where a place is located, but here we are describing a characteristic of the park itself. When describing what a place is generally like, such as being quiet or peaceful, we use the verb ser, which gives us es.