gustar y gustar a

Question

¿Qué es la diferencia entre 'gustar a' y 'gustar'? Por ejemplo: ¿es una diferencia entre 1. Maria no le gusta sofá vieja y 2. A Maria no le gustas sofá vieja.

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Mark Mast

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Answer 1

Grammatical errors. Neither of the sentences appear to me to be written correctly.

With gustar, the person who likes something is the indirect object, the thing or things liked is the subject. So the verb is conjugated to that or those things, and the person, as an indirect object requires a personal “a”.

So with other corrections that are needed:

A Maria no le gustan los sofás viejos= (The) Old sofas are not pleasing to Maria/ Maria does not like (the) old sofas.

Or

A Maria no le gusta el sofá viejo= The old sofa is not pleasing to Maria/ Maria does not like the old sofa.