Breakdown of Vi piacciono i vecchi film italiani?
vecchio
old
italiano
Italian
vi
to you (plural)
piacere
to please / to like
Questions & Answers about Vi piacciono i vecchi film italiani?
Why does this sentence use piacciono instead of piace?
In Italian, the verb piacere (to like) works a bit backwards compared to English. You are literally asking "Are old Italian movies pleasing to you all?". Because the things being liked (i vecchi film italiani) are plural, you must use the plural form piacciono. If you were asking about just one movie, you would use piace.
Why does the sentence start with Vi?
Vi means "to you all" (the plural "you"). Because piacere literally means "to be pleasing to", the person who likes the thing gets an indirect object pronoun. If you were asking just one person "Do you like...", you would use Ti instead of Vi.
Why isn't the word for movies pluralized as films?
Foreign words that Italian has borrowed, like film, bar, or sport, do not change their ending when they become plural. We know there is more than one movie here because the surrounding words are plural: the article i (the) and the adjectives vecchi and italiani.
Why does vecchi come before the noun, but italiani comes after?