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¿Te gustan las galletas con leche?

¿Te gustan las galletas con leche?
Do you like cookies with milk?
From Lesson 48:Plural likes (me gustan)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about ¿Te gustan las galletas con leche?

Why is it gustan with an 'n' at the end instead of just gusta?
In Spanish, the verb gustar actually means 'to be pleasing to'. You aren't saying 'you like the cookies', but rather 'the cookies are pleasing to you'. Since las galletas (the cookies) is plural, the verb must match it by adding an 'n' to become gustan.
Why do we need the word las before galletas? In English, we just say 'cookies'.
In Spanish, when you talk about liking things in a general sense, you must include the definite article (el, la, los, or las). So instead of just saying 'cookies', Spanish requires you to say 'the cookies' (las galletas).
What exactly does the word te mean here?
Te means 'to you'. Because gustan means 'are pleasing', placing te before the verb makes the sentence mean 'are they pleasing to you?' This is how you express 'you like' in Spanish.
Since we added las to cookies, why don't we add la before leche?
When talking about a general category of things you like as the main subject (like the cookies doing the pleasing), you need the article. But con leche just describes how you eat the cookies. Here, 'milk' acts exactly like it does in English: an unspecified amount, so no article is needed.

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