Estar behaving like gustar?

Question

¿________ está aburriendo esta película?The answer appears to treat estar as a verb like gustar.  It doesn´t appear as such in your list.  What am I missing?

Silvia Piriz · Accepted Answer

Hola Peter M.
Great observation! Actually, “estar” isn’t behaving like “gustar” — what’s happening is that the verb “aburrir” can behave like “gustar” when used in this way.
In the sentence:
¿Te está aburriendo esta película? (Is this movie boring you?)
The structure is: [indirect object pronoun] + está aburriendo + subject — just like with gustar. So it’s “aburrir” (not estar) that’s working like gustar here.
Hope that clears it up!
Let us know if you’d like more examples. 😊
Hasta pronto
Silvia