Questions & Answers about Îmi place cum cântă Andrei la chitară.
In Romanian, the verb a plăcea works the opposite way from English to like.
- English: I like X → I = subject, X = object.
- Romanian: Îmi place X → literally X pleases me.
- X (what you like) is the subject.
- Îmi (to me) is an indirect object (dative clitic pronoun).
So in Îmi place cum cântă Andrei la chitară:
- The subject of place is cum cântă Andrei la chitară (how Andrei plays the guitar).
- Îmi = mie (to me) – the person who experiences the pleasure.
Eu plac would mean I am pleasing (to someone), not I like.
To say I like something, you normally use Îmi place + what you like.