Los pasatiempos

• charlar (chat)
• jugar un juego de mesa (play a board game)
• dibujar (draw)
• jugar a los bolos (go bowling)
• dar una vuelta / dar un paseo / ir de paseo (go for a walk)
• jugar videojuegos (play videogames)
• navegar el internet (surf the web)
• pasar el tiempo (pass time, hang out)
• salir (go out)
• tejer (knit)
• tocar el piano (play piano)
• tocar la guitarra (play the guitar)
• trepar árboles (climb trees)

Los deportes

• el alpinismo (mountaineering, mountain climbing)
• andar en bicicleta (to go on a bike ride)
• el atletismo (track and field)
• el básquetbol (basketball)
• el béisbol (baseball)
• esquiar (en la nieve) (ski [in the snow])
• esquiar en la tabla (snowboard)
• el fútbol (soccer)
• el fútbol americano (American football)
• el golf (golf)
• levantar pesas (lift weights)
• la natación (swimming)
• pescar (fishing)
• el tenis (tennis)
• el vóleibol (volleyball)

The Spanish equivalent of “I like” is me gusta, which literally means “it pleases me”. To indicate whether someone else likes something, you change the indirect object pronoun so the thing is pleasing to that person:

forms for different people liking a singular thing
	persona singular	persona plural
primera (1a)	me gusta (I like)	nos gusta (We like)
segunda (2a)	te gusta (You like)	os gusta (You all like)
tercera (3a)	le gusta (He/She likes)	les gusta (They like)

When you use the verb gustar, the verb form you choose will depend on whether what you like is a singular noun, a plural noun, or a verb.

The verb form gusta is always in the singular when the noun that is liked or disliked is singular, because *it* is pleasing to the person:

• (A mí) me gusta la casa.  (I like the house. Literally: The house pleases me.)

The verb form gustan is always in the plural when the noun is plural or there are two nouns, because *they* please the person:

• (A mí) me gustan las casas.  (I like the houses. Literally: The houses please me.)

Some other words that work the same way as gustar:

• Doler (to hurt; literally: to be painful) — Me duelen los pies. (My feet hurt / are hurting me.)
• Encantar (to love; literally: to be enchanting) — A los mexicanos les encantan los dramas coreanos. (Mexicans love Korean dramas.)
• Molestar (to mind; literally: to be irritating, bothersome) — ¿Le molesta la música? No, estoy bien. (Do you mind the music? No, I’m fine.)

• Yo quiero una vacación. (I want a vacation.)

With this group of verbs, the stem vowel e changes to an ie in all of the forms except the first and second person plural.

Comenzar (to start, to begin)
	Singular	Plural
1a	comienzo	comenzamos
2a	comienzas	comenzáis
3a	comienza	comienzan

• Cerrar (to close)
• Comenzar (to start, to begin)
• Empezar (to start, to begin)
• Entender (to understand)
• Pensar (to think)
• Preferir (to prefer)
• Perder (to lose)
• Querer (to want)
• Sentir (to feel)
• Tener (to have) (yo tengo, tú tienes…)
• Venir (to come) (yo vengo, tú vienes…)

Spanish turns many adjectives into adverbs by adding the suffix -mente to the feminine singular form of the adjective.

• normal → normalmente (normally)
• similar → similarmente (similarly)
• triste → tristemente (sadly)
• frecuente → frecuentemente (frequently)
• rápido → rápidamente (rapidly, quickly)
• largo → largamente (at length)