Spanish written expression

Question

Is "gustar" used properly in the sentence, "Me gusto discotheques."

No. Cut and paste this into your browser: http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/5579/gustar If you know how to use the search function here you can type gustar in it and you'll see lots of posts about it. - Jubilado, Oct 18, 2015

By the way your post uses good English form and style. - Jubilado, Oct 18, 2015

I really have to hold back and bite my fingers I so want to answer this. - Daniela2041, Oct 18, 2015

Dani, you can answer like a teacher would answer this person, just don't Give them the answer, but instruct them. :) - rac1, Oct 18, 2015

People that want quick answers aren't making an effort. - rac1, Oct 18, 2015

Daniela in this case they gave their answer and asked if they got it right, completely different than simply asking how do I say something. :) - bosquederoble, Oct 18, 2015

The English teacher in me forces me to point out that the conventions of English punctuation require a question mark outside the closing quotation marks in the above post instead of a period inside them. The entire sentence is a question; the part . . . - AnnRon, Oct 18, 2015

. . . within quotation marks is not. - AnnRon, Oct 18, 2015

Answer 1

Hi! I'll try to explain why your sentence is wrong

First of all, discotheques is not a Spanish word. The word you're looking for is discotecas. In Spanish an article is needed before the noun discotecas. Here you can learn more about using articles in Spanish

What are the options?

La - singular feminine
Las - plural feminine
El - singular masculine
Los - plural masuline
The word discotecas is in the plural (its singular is discoteca) and the word is feminine, so we are going to use the article 'las'.

Now let's talk about the verb, you wrote 'gusto'.
If you look here http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugate/gustar
Gusto is used with the first person of the singular Yo. Now, having in mind that our subject in this sentence is discotecas and as we have already established, it is a PLURAL noun, gusto is wrong because it is used for a SINGULAR subject.
It's actually very easy to know how to conjugate the verb once you know the subject, and to make it easier you can paraphrase the sentence.
I like discotheques
I like them
They are of my liking
They in Spanish equals to Ellos (masculine) or Ellas (feminine)
If you look in the chart again http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugate/gustar
You will find that the correct conjugation of the verb gustar for the pronoun Ellos / Ellas is gustan.
If we put all together we end up with this sentence: Me gustan las discotecas.

I hope this helps

Answer 2

Translating "gustar" to English is always confusing because most people translate it to "to like", but a more accurate translation is "to please". In your sentence it´s easy to understand who or what does the pleasing (as opposed to who is being pleased) and this identifies the subject. Now just conjugate the subject accordingly.

Answer 3

If your talking about what "you" like you would use "(me,te,les,nos), gusta. But if your talking to someone about a comment they made you would use "gusto/gusta"

Don't give answers to homework. Just instruct them how to find the answer. - rac1, Oct 18, 2015