How to use 'gustar' in this case?
For example in this sentence: "I like riding on the bike, running and reading"
I guess it's something like this in Spanish: "Me gustan (or gusta?) montar en bici, correr, y leer."
Or "I like Laura, Diana and Chris."
It's like "Me gusta/gustan Laura, Diana y Chris."
Which form of 'gustar' is used here? I thought that it's 'gustan', because I say many things which makes it plural, but I'm not sure. Can anybody help?
3 Answers
"Me gusta montar en bici, correr y leer" and "Me gusta/gustan Laura, Diana y Chris" When you talk about "gustar" and a list of things or people, you can use either singular or plural. However, when you talk about a number of different actions, expressed as infinitives, you talk about the whole list as singular, always (unless you happen to live in Honduras)
I truly believes it depends on the region. A friend of mine from Honduras teaches Spanish I out of the "Realidades" textbook. She was mentioning to me that the text teaches "gusta" with a series of infinitives, but that in Honduras "gustan" would be used in that case.
However, with a list of nouns the text teaches "gustan", which would definitely be correct.
The possibility of either "gusta" or "gustan" is open with a series of infinitives.
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