The verb gustar in the present tense

Question

A nosotros gustamos Escribir en espanol.

A Ellos gustan Mirar la television.

A Carolota y a carolina gustan hablar en ingles.

A Oscar le gustar jugar con el Perro.

Benino gusta recibir regalos.

Al señor avila y a to le gustan las comidas extranjeras

Answer 1

A nosotros nos gusta escribir en español. 2 A ellos les gusta mirar la televisión. but I would use ver rather than mirar. A Caralota y a Carolina les gusta hablar en inglés. 3 A Oscar le gusta jugar con el perro. 4 A Benino le gusta recibir regalos. 5 el señor Avila y a ti os gustan las comidas extranjeras. The verb gustar is normally used in third person singular when followed by an infiitive and it is not pluralised according to how many people are doing the liking but it is pluralised as in the last example because the the things being liked are plural but remember that when using infinitive it is singular and anything that follows the infinitve is by the way example A mi me gusta leer las novelas románticas. So as you see even though las novelas are plural they were preceded by an infinative.

Answer 2

Per the forum rules, what are you wanting? You are not being specific enough. Do you want corrections? Do you want this translated into English?

Looking at the attempts I think Papa is trying to do some 'gustar' homework but hasn't quite got the concept which can be quite tricky :) - Kiwi-Girl, Apr 12, 2012

Answer 3

Perhaps I could just get you started with the first one.

What you're really saying here with gustar is that some thing is or some things are pleasing to you.

So you need to conjugate the verb gustar to match not the person being pleased but to match what you like. This will usually be gusta (if it's one thing you like, lit. one thing that is pleasing to you) or gustan (two or more things).

The trick is that you need to put it this way round:

to me - it is pleasing - me gusta

or to us - it is pleasing etc - nos gusta

or in the plural

to me - they are pleasing - me gustan

or to us - the are pleasing - nos gustan

Also for emphasis often 'a mi' (to me) or 'a nosotros' (to us) is added.

So for your first example the 'a nosotros' is good

then you need: nos gusta - to us it is pleasing

plus escribir en español.

A nosotros, nos gusta escribir en español.

I hope that helps, perhaps you'd like to check the others