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Encantar – to delight or enchant

Encantar – to delight or enchant

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Encantar – to delight or enchant. Encantar – to delight. Me encanta tu camisa . Your shirt delights me . Me encantan los animales . Animals delight me. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Encantar  – to  delight or enchant

Encantar – to delight or enchant

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Encantar – to delight1. Me encanta tu camisa.

Your shirt delights me.

2. Me encantan los animales.Animals delight me.

In English this sounds even more bizarre than saying, “Your shirt pleases me.” For that reason, encantar is loosely translated to mean “to love.”

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Thinking of encantar as “to love.”

The following sentences have the same meaning, but different sentence structures. Which matches the Spanish structure?

1. I love tigers. Me encantan los tigres.

2. *Tigers delight me. Me encantan los tigres.

subject verb object

*This one matches the Spanish structure because “tigers” is the subject, and therefore determines the form of the verb.

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Thinking of encantar as “to love”

Encantar is not used to talk about loving people. It is used to talk about loving (as in really enjoying) activities and things.

Examples:–Me encanta esquiar.• I love to ski.

– Te encanta ese programa de tele.• You love that TV show.

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Esteban loves baseball.

Rewrite the sentence in Spanish.

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A Esteban le encanta el beisbol.

Or

Le encanta el beisbol a Esteban.

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Ana loves to play soccer.

Rewrite the sentence in Spanish.

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A Ana le encanta jugar el fútbol.

Or

Le encanta jugar el fútbol a Ana.