agradar

From grat, from Latin gratus, gratum.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ɣɾəˈða]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ɣɾaˈðaɾ]

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agradar (first-person singular present agrado, first-person singular preterite agradí, past participle agradat)

1. to like
2. to please

• Agradar is usually translated as like, but subject and object are reversed from those of to like. That is, the subject of agradar is the thing that pleases and the indirect object is the person who likes it. As the object is indirect, a third-person subject is supplemented with the preposition a, or substituted by pronouns li/els.

• T'agrada el menjar? — Do you like the food?
• M'agrades molt. — I like you a lot. (literally to me you like a lot)
• A la noia li agradaven les flors. — The girl liked the flowers.

agradar (Latin spelling)

1. to please, give pleasure, to like

From grat, from Latin grātum < grātus. Compare Catalan and Spanish agradar, French agréer.

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• IPA^(key): [aɣraˈða]

agradar

1. to like
2. to please

Agradar is usually translated as like, but subject and object are reversed from those of to like. That is, the subject of agradar is the thing that pleases and the indirect object is the person who likes it. As the object is indirect, a third-person subject is supplemented with the preposition a.

• T'agrada lo manjar? — Do you like the food?
• M'agradas. — I like you.
• Al dròlle li agradèron los viatges. — The boy liked the trips.

Compare also French plaire, Italian piacere and Spanish gustar, which are similar.

• grasir
• plaire

From a- +‎ grado +‎ -ar, from Latin grātum < grātus.

• Hyphenation: a‧gra‧dar

agradar (first-person singular present agrado, first-person singular preterite agradei, past participle agradado)

1. (transitive) to please
2. to be nice to, to fuss over
3. (intransitive) to be pleasing, to please
4. to go down well

For quotations using this term, see Citations:agradar.

• gostar

From grado, from Latin grātum < grātus. Compare English agree.

• IPA^(key): /aɡɾaˈdaɾ/ [a.ɣ̞ɾaˈð̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧gra‧dar

agradar (first-person singular present agrado, first-person singular preterite agradé, past participle agradado)

1. to please, to agree with

   Synonym: gustar

   Antonym: desagradar

   Es un tipo que no me agrada

   I don't like his type

• “agradar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28