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Mi sono piaciuti i fard, ne voglio comprare parecchi.

Mi sono piaciuti i fard, ne voglio comprare parecchi.
I liked the blushes, I want to buy several of them.
From Lesson 295:Plural indefinite quantities (parecchi, diversi, vari)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Mi sono piaciuti i fard, ne voglio comprare parecchi.

Why does parecchi end in -i here?
In this sentence, parecchi (several) is an indefinite pronoun standing in for the noun fard. Because it replaces a plural masculine noun, it must agree with it, changing from the singular parecchio to the masculine plural form parecchi.
Why doesn't the word fard change its ending for the plural?
Fard (blush) is a loan word from French. In Italian, foreign loan words ending in a consonant usually do not change their endings in the plural. You can tell it is plural here because of the plural article i and the plural verb sono piaciuti.
Why is the verb sono piaciuti plural when the speaker is a single person ('I')?
With the verb piacere (to like), the thing being liked is the grammatical subject. Literally, the sentence is saying 'the blushes were pleasing to me'. Since i fard is plural, the auxiliary verb must be the plural sono, and the past participle gets a matching masculine plural ending (piaciuti).
What role does ne play in this sentence?
Ne is a pronoun that replaces 'of them' or 'of it' when you are talking about quantities. Here, it pairs with parecchi to mean 'several of them'. When you specify a quantity in Italian but leave out the noun, you generally need to use ne.

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