Questions & Answers about Perché non ti è piaciuto il ballo?
Why does this sentence use è instead of ha for the past tense?
In Italian, the verbpiacere always uses the helper verb essere (to be) in the past tense, neveravere (to have). So, we say è piaciuto, which translates literally as it was pleasing.
If a woman is being asked this question, should it be ti è piaciuta?
The word for "you" is the pronounti. Because piacere works backward compared to English, it literally means to be pleasing to. So, ti actually means to you. The sentence literally reads: Why was the dance not pleasing to you?