Word
Wasze pomysły bardzo mi się podobają.
Meaning
I like your ideas very much.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Wasze pomysły bardzo mi się podobają.
ja
I
bardzo
very
wasz
your (plural)
podobać się
to appeal / to like (aesthetically, first impressions)
Questions & Answers about Wasze pomysły bardzo mi się podobają.
Why is the word for "your" Wasze here instead of Wasi?
Wasze is the plural form of "your" used for things, animals, and women (non-masculine-personal nouns). Since pomysły (ideas) are inanimate objects, we use Wasze in the Nominative plural. You would only use Wasi if you were talking about a group containing male people.
If the sentence means "I like", why is the verb podobają in the "they" form?
The Polish verb podobać się works backwards compared to the English word "like". It actually means "to appeal to". The true subject of the sentence is Wasze pomysły (your ideas), which is a plural "they". Literally, the sentence means "Your ideas appeal to me very much."
Why do we use mi in this sentence?
Because podobać się means "to appeal to", the person who likes the object must be in the Dative case. Mi is the short Dative form of "I", literally meaning "to me".
Could I put się at the end of the sentence like "Wasze pomysły bardzo mi podobają się"?
It is best to avoid putting się at the very end of a sentence. Polish naturally tucks short, unstressed words like mi and się into the middle of the sentence, right after a stressed word or phrase like bardzo.