Lesson 2.1.4 · Verbos sociales
🤝 Friends, Meeting & Marrying
The verbs that build a social life — liking, meeting, marrying — and the people you do them with.
Sub-lessons
Break this lesson into focused chunks. Each sub-lesson has its own Memory Lab — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaved review, and shadowing — scoped to just those words.
People & company
Friends, partners, and being together. Note la pareja covers both 'a couple' and 'my partner'.
friend
La amiga for a female friend.
couple / partner
together
Example sentences
Necesito el amigo, por favor.
I need the friend, please.
¿Dónde está la pareja?
Where is the couple / partner?
La comida está juntos.
The food is together.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el amigo?
Where is the friend?
Me gusta la pareja.
I like the couple / partner.
Social verbs
Gustar is famously backwards: it conjugates with what is liked, not who likes it (me gusta el café = coffee pleases me). Conocer is for meeting/knowing people and places; saber is for facts.
to like (lit. to please)
Me gusta — I like it. Me gustan — I like them (plural).
to meet / know (a person/place)
Mucho gusto en conocerle — pleasure to meet you.
to marry / get married
Se casaron — they got married.
Example sentences
Yo gusto todos los días.
I like (lit. to please) every day.
¿Quieres conocer conmigo?
Do you want to meet / know (a person/place) with me?
La comida está casarse.
The food is marry / get married.
Mini-diálogo
¿Quieres gustar conmigo?
Do you want to like (lit. to please) with me?
Me gusta conocer en la tarde.
I like to meet / know (a person/place) in the afternoon.
Numbers, the missing piece
Add the number 'el número' itself to your kit. The full counting list lives in the dedicated Numbers lesson — review it whenever prices, ages, or addresses come up.
number
Example sentences
Necesito el número, por favor.
I need the number, please.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el número?
Where is the number?
Me gusta el número.
I like the number.
Memory lab
Five research-backed techniques — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaving, and production — applied to this lesson's vocabulary. Your progress trains a spaced-repetition schedule under the hood.
Force the answer from memory before peeking. The struggle is the workout — that's the testing effect.
Recall from English
to like (lit. to please)
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
number
gustar
to marry / get married
conocer
friend
la pareja
Fill the blank
¿Quieres _____ conmigo?
Do you want to meet / know (a person/place) with me?
Fill the blank
La comida está _____.
The food is marry / get married.
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