Questions & Answers about Мне нравится сегодняшняя тишина в парке.
In Russian, the thing you like is the grammatical subject, and you are in the dative case as the experiencer.
- Мне нравится тишина. – Literally: Silence pleases me.
- тишина – subject (nominative)
- нравится – verb (3rd person singular)
- мне – indirect object (dative: to me)
«Я нравлюсь…» means “I am liked (by someone)”:
- Я нравлюсь ему. – He likes me. (Literally: I am pleasing to him.)
So to say “I like X”, you normally use:
- Мне нравится X. – X pleases me / I like X.
Russian often uses the dative case to mark the person who experiences a feeling or state:
- Мне холодно. – I am cold. (Literally: It is cold to me.)
- Ему скучно. – He is bored. (Literally: It is boring to him.)
- Нам нравится фильм. – We like the movie. (Literally: The movie pleases us.)
In «Мне нравится сегодняшняя тишина в парке», мне shows “to whom” the silence is pleasing: to me.