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In Greek, αρέσω literally means “to be pleasing”, not “to like”.
- μου αρέσει το κρύο = the cold is pleasing to me
– grammatical subject: το κρύο (the cold)
– indirect object: μου (to me)
So the structure is reversed compared to English:
- English: I like the cold. (I = subject)
- Greek: The cold pleases me → μου αρέσει το κρύο
(το κρύο = subject, μου = “to me”)
That’s why you don’t say αρέσω το κρύο; that would be ungrammatical.
μου is the unstressed (clitic) form of εγώ in the genitive case. In this construction it means “to me”:
- μου αρέσει = it pleases me / I like it
- Other persons:
- σου αρέσει = you like (it)
- του αρέσει = he/it likes
- της αρέσει = she/it likes
- μας αρέσει = we like
- σας αρέσει = you (pl./polite) like
- τους αρέσει = they like
So μου is needed to show who finds something pleasing.