Breakdown of Me gustan mucho los caballos blancos.
blanco
white
mucho
a lot
me
to me / myself (reflexive) / me (direct object)
gustar
to like
el caballo
the horse
Questions & Answers about Me gustan mucho los caballos blancos.
Why is it gustan and not gusta?
In Spanish, the verb gustar works differently than 'to like' in English. It literally means 'to be pleasing'. Because the white horses (los caballos blancos) are the things doing the pleasing, they are actually the subject of the sentence. Since horses is plural, the verb must take the plural form gustan.
If gustan means 'are pleasing', what does Me mean here?
The word Me is an indirect object pronoun that means 'to me'. So, instead of saying 'I like white horses', the Spanish sentence is literally saying 'White horses are very pleasing to me.'
Why does mucho come right after the verb instead of at the end of the sentence like 'a lot' does in English?
Why do we need the word los here? In English, we just say 'white horses', not 'the white horses'.
When you talk about liking, loving, or hating things in a general sense in Spanish, you always have to include the definite article (el, la, los, or las). Because you are talking about horses in general, you must include los.
Why is it blancos and not just blanco?
In Spanish, adjectives (describing words) must match the noun they describe. Because caballos is plural and masculine, the word for white must also be the plural and masculine form, blancos.
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