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Nos gustan los sellos viejos.

Nos gustan los sellos viejos.
We like old stamps.
From Lesson 51:Plural agreement with verbs of liking (gustan)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Nos gustan los sellos viejos.

Why is it gustan with an 'n' here instead of just gusta?
Because of how gustar works! In Spanish, you aren't saying "We like old stamps." You are literally saying "The old stamps are pleasing to us." Since the stamps (los sellos) are doing the action, and there is more than one stamp, the verb must be in the plural form: gustan.
If the sentence means "We like", why does it start with nos instead of nosotros?
Because gustar means "to be pleasing to". You need a pronoun that means "to us", which is nos. If you used nosotros, you would be saying "We are pleasing to...", which completely changes the meaning!
The English translation says "old stamps", so why is there a los in the Spanish sentence?
When you talk about liking or disliking things in a general sense in Spanish, you must include the definite article (el, la, los, or las). In English we just say "old stamps", but Spanish requires los sellos viejos (literally "the old stamps").
Why is the word order sellos viejos instead of viejos sellos?
In Spanish, descriptive words (adjectives) almost always come right after the noun they describe. Also, notice that viejos ends in -os to match the plural, masculine noun sellos.

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