Wednesday, July 8, 2009

se plaire

this is a very confusing verb, even if I speak other roman languages grrr!
I always get it wrong, between wanting to say: I like Brussels, I like Lucy, we like each other, Lucy likes me, gggrrr again! Someone needs to explain this to me:(

plaire /plɛʀ/ (conjugate⇒)
  1. plaire à verb+preposition
    1. elle plaît aux hommes men find her attractive;
      elle m'a plu tout de suite I liked her straight away;
    1. mon travail me plaît I like my job;
      un modèle qui plaît beaucoup a very popular model.
  1. se plaire reflexive verb (+ v être)
    1. [people, couple] to like each other;
    1. ils se plaisent ici they like it here;
    1. il se plaît à dire qu'il est issu du peuple he likes to say that he's a son of the people.
[from wordreference]

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