Eli5: why is it that nearly every verb that gets translated into English is translated as “to X”? For example; German: “kaufen”=English: “to buy”; Spanish: “gusto” =English: “to like”. Why is that?
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One additional thing is that you may just be inadvertently glossing over the other conjugations of the verbs. Of course, if you cherry pick all the infinitive forms of the verbs, they’re going to translate to “To X”.
But as mentioned, that is a single form of the verb. Going back to Spanish for instance, anyone who’s taken Spanish or some other second languages is familiar with the dreadfully boring process of conjugating verbs AKA writing out all six conjugations. Spanish, if I’m remembering has six. As mentioned elsewhere, “gusto” is actually the first person singular. It would be used in some sentence like *furiously brushes off dusty Spanish knowledge* “Me gusto la biblioteca.” or, “I like the library”.
However there are also versions for inclusive plural (We), second person (you) uh, third person singular (he/she), third person plural (They) and some others I can quite remember involving “you” somehow.
All of them are the same core verb but end slightly differently. Gustar for infinitive, gusto, gusta, gustamos, etc.
I’m not sure what all was involved in, or how long it took you to come to your conclusion, but you may have just been looking at an incomplete puzzle as well.
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