Apetecer means ‘to feel like/fancy’. It is an irregular verb: apetece (present), apeteció (preterite), apetezca (present subjunctive). It is mostly used in the third person with an indirect object pronoun, like gustar: me apetece, me apetecen.
Apetecer in use
¿Te apetece un café?Do you fancy a coffee?
Hoy no me apetece salirI don't feel like going out today
Nos apetecía ir a la playaWe felt like going to the beach
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Indicative
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Apetecer is used mostly in Spain (¿Te apetece un café?). In Latin America people usually say tener ganas de or querer.
More tenses
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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