Breakdown of Мне нравится зимний парк.
парк
park
нравиться
to please / to appeal
зимний
winter (adjective)
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Questions & Answers about Мне нравится зимний парк.
Why does this sentence start with Мне instead of Я?
In Russian, to express that you like something, you literally say that the thing is pleasing to you. Мне is the 'to me' form (the Dative case) of я (I). The English 'I like' becomes 'To me is pleasing'.
Why do we use the singular нравится here?
The verb matches the thing you like, which is the actual subject of the sentence. Since парк (park) is just one thing, we use the singular form нравится. If you liked plural things, like parks (парки), you would use the plural form нравятся.
What case is зимний парк in?
It is in the Nominative case (the basic dictionary form). Even though 'the winter park' is the object you like in English, in Russian grammar it is the subject of the sentence because it is the thing doing the pleasing!