How do you say "Like" in Spanish?
By "Like" I means the verb where you click a thumbs-up icon on Facebook or Youtube.
I frequently see Youtube comments like "Like si estas mirando en 2013", in which "Like" obviously comes from the English verb.
How is the "Like" in the Youtube comment pronounced? Like the English "Like" or does it follow the Spanish pronunciation?
Also, does this verb exist in other tenses? Can I say "Yo quiero like esta video"? How about "¡No liked esa video!". Or does it exist only in that one particular expression?
EDIT: It seems like a lot of you are misunderstanding my question. I don't mean "I like this video" as in "Me gusta esta video". I understand how that works.
I mean the physical action of clicking the like button on a Facebook page. In English we say "I liked that page on Facebook" we are describing a physical action. I want to know how you say that action in Spanish.
4 Answers
It's pronunced like the English "like".
You can use "dale (a) Me gusta" instead of "like"
Lo siento, pero la solución sea muy fácil:
Haz click a 'me gusta'.
I think this is the corrct answer to this slightly sad question (I'm not addicted to Facebook, where my shut-down page was recently taken over by aliens and I found myself advertising slimming pills! I did not get paid. )
Actually in Spanish we do not usually say we like but rather that something pleases us. The grammatical difference is that when we say we like something in English, we are the subject of the sentence. In Spanish the one or thing that is pleasing to us is the subject and we are the indirect object, thus the use of the indirect object pronoun (IOP) in "me gusta".
