Learn Hardcore Czech: Dnes mi voní i káva, i když mi včera nevoněla. - Today even coffee smells good to me, although yesterday I did not like its smell.

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Dnes mi voní i káva, i když mi včera nevoněla.

Meaning

Today even coffee smells good to me, although yesterday I did not like its smell.

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Breakdown of Dnes mi voní i káva, i když mi včera nevoněla.

What does mi mean here?

Mi means to me. It is the short form of the dative pronoun mně/mi.

In Czech, verbs like vonět often work as:

So:

This is different from English, where we often do not explicitly say to me unless we want to stress personal opinion.

Why is káva in the nominative?

Because káva is the grammatical subject of the verb vonět.

In this sentence, the structure is:

So káva is the thing doing the “smelling nice,” and mi is the person experiencing it.

That is why:

What exactly does voní mean?