Questions & Answers about Il colore dell’albicocca mi piace molto.
Why is it mi piace and not something like io amo or io piace?
In Italian, piacere works differently from the English verb to like.
Italian structures it more like:
- Something is pleasing to someone
So:
- Il colore dell’albicocca mi piace molto literally works like
- The color of the apricot is very pleasing to me
- mi = to me
- piace = is pleasing
You do not say io piace, because io is the subject I, but here I is not the grammatical subject. The subject is il colore.
You could use amo, but that means I love, which is much stronger and less neutral. Mi piace molto is the natural way to say that you like something a lot.
What exactly does mi mean here?
Mi is an indirect object pronoun meaning to me.
So:
- mi piace = it pleases me / I like it
- ti piace = it pleases you
- gli piace = it pleases him
- le piace = it pleases her
- ci piace = it pleases us
In this sentence, mi tells us who likes the color: me.
Why is it piace and not piacciono?