How to Say ‘The pleasure is mine.’ in Mexican Spanish
El gusto es mío.
el GOOS-toh ess MEE-oh
[el GOOS-toh ess MEE-oh]
🇲🇽 In Mexico: The standard warm reply to mucho gusto or qué gusto conocerte. It's polite without being stiff.
Phrase Breakdown
El gusto
el GOOS-toh
The pleasure
Keep the article with its noun: 'el GUS-to'.
El gusto de verte es grande.
The pleasure of seeing you is great.
Words in this phrase
El
[el]
the
Masculine singular definite article.
«El» acompaña al sustantivo en «El crecimiento».
“El” accompanies the noun in “The growth.”
gusto
[GOOS-toh]
pleasure
In mucho gusto, gusto means pleasure and helps form the phrase nice to meet you.
Decir mucho gusto en una conversación profesional suena amable.
Saying nice to meet you in a professional conversation sounds polite.
es mío.
ess MEE-oh
is mine.
Stress the 'í': 'es MÍ-o'. Together, the full phrase is the polite reply to 'nice to meet you'.
Este libro es mío.
This book is mine.
Words in this phrase
es
[ess]
is
Third-person singular of “ser,” used to describe what something is like.
En la pregunta «¿Cómo es...?», «es» pide una descripción.
In the question “What is ... like?”, “es” asks for a description.
mío
[MEE-oh]
mine
Possessive pronoun, masculine singular.
Este vaso es mío.
This glass is mine.
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