What are some Spanish expressions with gustaría?
How to translate Spanish expressions with gustaría?. Buenos días o buenas tardes o buenas noches (good morning or good afternoon or good night). ¿Cómo están ustedes?… (How are you all). Today we are going to study “Gustaría” which means “would like”, a handy expression to know.
Let’s see (Veamos):
Me gustaría
Te gustaría
Le gustaría
Nos gustaría
Les gustaría I would like
You would like
He, She, You (formal) would like
We would like
They, You (plural) would like
Do you remember gustar from last lesson? Well Gustaría is a form of gustar, therefore we used it with the indirect object pronouns (me, te, le, nos, les).
Sometimes we used gustar with a prepositional phrase just to make it clear of whom we are talking about. We Spanish speakers very often use phrases with a (to), such as a Pedro (to Pedro)
Example:
A Pedro le gusta estudiar español (To Pedro he likes to study Spanish, or Pedro likes to study Spanish).
A Pedro le gustaría estudiar español (To Pedro he would like to study Spanish, or Pedro would like to study Spanish).
A María le gusta la lección de español (To Maria She likes the Spanish lesson, or Maria likes the Spanish lesson).
A María le gustaría una lección de español (To Maria She would like a Spanish lesson, or Maria would like a Spanish lesson).
What does gustaría mean?
Note: This probably does not make much sense in English but that is how we say it in Spanish. Remember languages are not logical.
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Ahora vamos a repetir estas frases en voz alta (Now let’s repeat these phrases aloud):
Me gustaría visitar un país hispano (I would like to visit a Hispanic country).
Te gustaría viajar a lugares remotos (You would like to travel to remote places).
A Juan le gustaría aprender más vocabulario (Juan would like to learn more vocabulary).
A Elena le gustaría caminar en el centro de la ciudad (Elena would like to walk downtown).
Nos gustaría aprender español en el extranjero (We would like to learn Spanish overseas).
A los estudiantes les gustaría escuchar musica latina (The students would like to listen to Latin music).
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Spanish Idioms
¡Qué calor! = How hot- more literally ‘what heat!’
¡Qué feo! =How ugly!
¡Qué ridículo! =How ridiculous!
¡Qué malcriado! W=hat a brat!
El burro hablando de orejas =The donkey speaking about ears/The tea pot calling the kettle black
No hay mal que por bien no venga =There is nothing bad from which good doesn’t come
No todo lo que brilla es oro = Not all/everything that shines/glitters is gold
Note: Spanish uses 2 exclamation marks, one upside down to open a sentence, and one regular one to finish it.
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