Today’s free Italian exercise is on piace/piacciono, the verb used to say “I like” in Italian.
I’m ashamed to say that I still get this wrong, even though I’ve been learning the language for over 15 years…
If you’re also having difficulty, think of it like this: the verb actually means ‘to please’ not ‘to like’.
So, IT pleaseS me.
But THEY please me.
Hence the 3rd person singular form ‘piace’ (it pleases).
And the 3rd person plural ‘piacciono’ (they please).
Easy to explain. Then it’s just a question of practice.
For which, click here for today’s free Italian exercise.
(We recently did a listening on this topic, so for some extra practice on this, go here.)
Or browse all of our free materials for learning Italian, roughly organised by level, on our Free Italian Exercises page.
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