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¿Te gusta esto?

¿Te gusta esto?
Do you like this?
From Lesson 69:Neuter demonstratives (esto, eso, aquello)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of ¿Te gusta esto?

gustar
to like
esto
this (neuter)

Questions & Answers about ¿Te gusta esto?

Why is the verb gusta instead of gustas if I am asking if you like it?
In Spanish, the verb gustar works differently than the English verb to like. It literally means to be pleasing to. The sentence is actually structured as Is this pleasing to you? Since esto (this) is doing the pleasing, the verb is conjugated to match it, using the singular form gusta.
What is the word te doing in this sentence?
Te is the indirect object pronoun for you (informal). It tells us who is receiving the action. In our literal translation Is this pleasing to you?, the word te represents the to you part.
Why use esto instead of este or esta for this?
We use esto when we are referring to an unknown object, a general situation, or something whose gender we haven't identified yet. If you were pointing at a specific masculine noun like a book (el libro), you would use este. For a feminine noun like an apple (la manzana), you would use esta. Since the specific object isn't named here, we use the neuter form esto.
Can I change the word order and put esto at the beginning?
Yes, you can ask ¿Esto te gusta? and it means exactly the same thing. In Spanish questions, it is very common for the subject (esto) to come after the verb, but putting it at the beginning is perfectly correct and just puts a little more emphasis on the word this.

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