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Certain Spanish verbs require special construction. They are used with indirect object pronouns.

Special sentence construction with some Spanish verbs (Construcción especial de oraciones con algunos verbos). Certain Spanish verbs require special construction. They are used with indirect object pronouns. Special construction of the verbs like “ gustar ”:

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Certain Spanish verbs require special construction. They are used with indirect object pronouns.

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  1. Special sentence construction with some Spanish verbs (Construcción especial de oraciones con algunos verbos)

  2. Certain Spanish verbs require specialconstruction. They are used with indirect object pronouns.

  3. Special construction of the verbs like “gustar”: • gustar(to like - literally, to be pleasing or to appeal to) • parecer(to seem to one, be of the opinion) • doler(to hurt) • faltar(to be lacking, to need) • quedar(to have - something - left) • encantar(to love -literally, to delight, to enchant) • importar(to care, to mind, to concern)

  4. In Spanish, the person who does the liking is the indirect object, and the thing or person liked is the subject. The preposition «a» is used with a noun or a pronoun to clarify the meaning or to emphasize the indirect object pronoun.

  5. Examples: ¿(A ti) Tegustala película? (Do you like the movie?)

  6. Examples:Sí, (a mí) megusta mucho. (Yes, I like it a lot).

  7. Examples:A Juan no legusta ese profesor, pero a mí megusta mucho. (Juan doesn’t like that teacher, but I like him very much.)

  8. Examples:A ella Legusta Julio Iglesias, a nosotros nos gustan los Beatles. (She likes Julio Iglesias, we like The Beatles).

  9. Examples:¡(A mí)Me duele mucho la espalda! (My back hurts a lot!)

  10. Examples:¿Cuánto te falta(a ti) para comprar el video? (How much do you need for to buy the video?)

  11. Examples:(A mí) Me faltanveinte dólares. (I need twenty dollars).

  12. Examples:(A ti)Te quedansolamente diez dólares en el banco. (You only have ten dollar left in the bank.)

  13. Examples:(A nosotros) Nos encantanlas películas de Harrison Ford. (We love Harrison Ford’s movies).

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