Questions & Answers about Мне интересно читать книги.
Why is it Мне and not Я?
Russian often uses the dative case to show who experiences a feeling or state.
- Мне = to me / for me (dative of я).
- The idea is literally: “To me, it is interesting to read books.”
This is an impersonal construction: there is no clear grammatical subject like I; instead, the person is marked in the dative (мне), and the state is described with интересно.
What is the literal structure and meaning of the whole sentence?
Literally, the structure is:
- Мне – to me (dative)
- интересно – is interesting (impersonal predicate)
- читать – to read (infinitive)
- книги – books (direct object)
So literally: “To me, it is interesting to read books.”
Natural English equivalent: “I find it interesting to read books” or “I enjoy reading books.”
Why is it интересно, not интересный or интересная?