Le guste o le gusten?
"iSi Dios habita dentro de nosotros como dicen algunos, ojala que le guste las enchiladas, porque eso le va a tocar!" I've been told that gustar is an irregular verb and as such you conjugate it to the enchiladas "le gusten". Anyone have a professional opinion?
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It is not irregular. In this case the word is subjunctive, so it has an en ending instead of an.
Yes, it should be "le gusten." Gustar means to please, so the enchiladas are pleasing (or at least, the speaker hopes so) to God. We normally translate the phrase to say "I hope God likes enchiladas." By changing the verb, we create confusion (which is probably what the person who told you was referring to).
It's not irregular, it's just that it means "to please", not "to like". In this case, you hope enchiladas please God, so it would be le gusten, they please him.
Gustar is 100% regular and it must agree with the subject, which in this case is plural ("enchiladas"), so it must be "le gusten".
le guste-> ¿A quién?-> a Dios. without-> "le"->"ójala que guste Dios de la enchiladas" - Is not potssible : "ójala que gusten Dios de las enchiladas" las enchiladas es complemento directo
I'm afraid not. Your "test" does not work with verbs like "gustar". Here, "las enchiladas" is the subject of the sentence. Instead of asking the verb, try a much more reliable test: agreement. If you change the subject, the verb must change accordingly. But because even some natives make mistakes when the subject comes after the verb, bring the suspected subject to the front and swap it from singular to plural. If it is a direct object, the verb will not change, but if it is a subject, you'll have to change it too:
La enchilada le gusta
Las enchiladas le gusta 
-> must be "le gustan"
This is not just my opinion. It is the classic example you learn in syntax when the teacher is trying to show you why asking the verb does not work.
Besides, if it were a direct object, you normally would be able to use the pronouns "la/las" and to make the passive with it. None of them work (because "enchiladas" is the subject):
Le gustan las enchiladas - Se lo gusta a él
Las enchiladas son gustadas por él
More tests: if you place a direct object before the verb, you must add the corresponding pronoun:
Quiero esa casa --> Esa casa la quiero ("la" must be added)
And yet, you can easily place "Las enchiladas" before "gustan" without having to add that seemingly redundant object pronoun. You don't have to say (well, you can't say) Las enchiladas se lo gustan.
La enchilada le gusta
Las enchiladas le gusta -> must be "les gusta"
Did you mean...Las enchiladas le gustan?
The subject changed so the verb must also.
If the direct object changed le to les the verb would not.
La enchilada le gusta
La enchilada les gusta
le guste
"Le" have reference to God, and i thing is singular...
