Мне нравится мой привычный маршрут до метро.

I like my usual route to the metro.

Breakdown of Мне нравится мой привычный маршрут до метро.

• мой: my
• мне: me
• метро: the metro
• до: to

Questions & Answers about Мне нравится мой привычный маршрут до метро.

Why is it Мне нравится and not Я нравлюсь at the start of the sentence?

Russian expresses liking in a different way from English.

• English: I like my usual route to the metro.
  Subject = I, object = route.

• Russian: Мне нравится мой привычный маршрут до метро.
  Literally: To me is pleasing my usual route to the metro.

Structure in Russian:

• Мне – dative case of я (to me, for me). This is the experiencer of the feeling.
• мой привычный маршрут – nominative, this is the grammatical subject.
• нравится – the verb that agrees with the subject (маршрут).

So in Russian, the route is the thing that is pleasing; you are the one to whom it is pleasing.

Я нравлюсь means I am liked (by someone), not I like.
For example: Я ему нравлюсь = He likes me.

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Why does the verb appear as нравится and not in some other form?

Нравится is the 3rd person singular form of the verb нравиться (to be pleasing, to be liked).

Present tense forms:

• он / она / оно нравится – it is liked / is pleasing
• они нравятся – they are liked / are pleasing

The verb must agree with the subject in nominative:

• Мне нравится мой маршрут. – subject маршрут (singular) →