Am I really pleased to meet you?
Hello all,
So I understand that "mucho gusto" essentially means "pleased to meet you" in the social context. However, the great translator translates it as "gladly." I'm not questioning either translation, but I would like to know in the grammatical and vocabulary sense where it is appropriate to use the phrase in each case: as "pleased to meet you" and "gladly"
Ayuda es muy bien! Gracias!
1 Answer
Mucho gusto means much pleasure, literally.
It has the sense of 'pleased to meet you' as a response to being introduced to someone, as does 'my pleasure', 'a pleasure' in fairly formal English.
For gladly, I'd say 'con gusto' - 'with pleasure', this would be as a response to a request or to a 'thank you'. 'Gracias Juan' say I to the doorman, 'con gusto Alex' comes the reply, many times a day.
'Un placer conocerte' is closer to 'pleased to meet you', meaning 'a pleasure to meet you'. Although conocer means, in the main, to know, it is also used for meeting someone for the first time.
