Questions & Answers about Non ci piacciono gli sport pericolosi, preferiamo i giochi tranquilli.
Why do we use piacciono instead of piace?
Piacere works backwards compared to English. You are actually saying "dangerous sports are not pleasing to us." Since gli sport pericolosi is plural, you must use the plural verb form piacciono. What does ci mean in ci piacciono?
Ci means "to us". In your lessons, you learned that mi piacciono means "I like" (literally "they are pleasing to me"). To say "we like", you just change mi to ci. Why doesn't the word sport change to end in an -i for the plural?
Foreign words borrowed into Italian, like sport, computer, or film, usually don't change their endings in the plural. We know it is plural here because the words around it are plural: the article gli, the adjective pericolosi, and the verb piacciono. Why is there an 'h' in the word giochi?
The singular word is gioco. In Italian, if a word ends in -co, you often need to add an h before the plural -i ending to keep the hard "k" sound. Without the h, gioci would be pronounced with a soft "ch" sound. Why do we say ci piacciono but just preferiamo without a ci?
Preferire (to prefer) acts like a normal English verb: the person doing the action is the subject, so we just say preferiamo (we prefer). Piacere acts differently ("is pleasing to us"), which is why it needs the extra pronoun ci. Learn Non ci piacciono gli sport pericolosi, preferiamo i giochi tranquilli and more in Italian
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