# agradar
## Catalan
### Etymology

From grat, from Latin gratus, gratum. Compare Italian aggradare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ə.ɣɾəˈða]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.ɣɾaˈðaɾ]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

agradar (first-person singular present agrado, first-person singular preterite agradí, past participle agradat)
* to like
* to please

#### Usage notes

* 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.

#### Conjugation
## Ladino
### Verb

agradar
* to please, give pleasure, to like

## Occitan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Béarn):(file)
* IPA: [aɣraˈða]

### Verb

agradar
* to like
* to please

#### Usage notes

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.

#### Synonyms

* grasir
* plaire

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.ɡɾaˈda(ʁ)/ [a.ɡɾaˈda(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.ɡɾaˈda(ʁ)/ [a.ɡɾaˈda(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /a.ɡɾaˈda(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /a.ɡɾaˈda(ʁ)/ [a.ɡɾaˈda(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.ɡɾaˈda(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.ɡɾɐˈdaɾ/ [ɐ.ɣɾɐˈðaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.ɡɾɐˈdaɾ/ [ɐ.ɣɾɐˈðaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.ɡɾɐˈda.ɾi/ [ɐ.ɣɾɐˈða.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: a‧gra‧dar

### Verb

agradar (first-person singular present agrado, first-person singular preterite agradei, past participle agradado)
* (transitive) to please
* to be nice to, to fuss over
* (intransitive) to be pleasing, to please
* to go down well

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:agradar.

#### See also

* gostar

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɡɾaˈdaɾ/ [a.ɣ̞ɾaˈð̞aɾ]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: a‧gra‧dar

### Verb

agradar (first-person singular present agrado, first-person singular preterite agradé, past participle agradado)
* to please, to agree with
    Synonym: gustar
    Antonym: desagradar
    Es un tipo que no me agradaI don't like his type

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* agradable
* desagradar

### Further reading

* “agradar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10