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¿Qué te parece el plan?

¿Qué te parece el plan?
What do you think of the plan?
From Lesson 112:Giving opinions (me parece, estar de acuerdo)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about ¿Qué te parece el plan?

Why does this use parece instead of a word like piensas (you think)?
In English, we ask "What do you think?", but Spanish commonly uses the verb parecer (to seem) to ask for an opinion. Literally, this sentence asks "What does the plan seem to you?" You could say ¿Qué piensas del plan?, but ¿Qué te parece... is much more natural and common in everyday conversation.
Why is the verb parece in the "it" form instead of the "you" form?
This verb works just like gustar (to like). The subject of the sentence is actually el plan, not "you". Because "the plan" is doing the "seeming", the verb must match it. If you were asking about multiple plans, the verb would change to match them: ¿Qué te parecen los planes?
What is the role of te in this sentence?
Te means "to you". It tells us who is receiving the impression. Because it is an object pronoun, it is placed immediately before the conjugated verb parece.
Since it translates to "How does the plan seem to you?", why use qué instead of cómo?
Even though "how" makes sense in the English literal translation, Spanish always uses qué (what) with parecer when asking for someone's opinion. Saying cómo in this exact phrase sounds unnatural in Spain.

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