The verb piacere, to like, is used to express tastes and preferences.
Piacere has a particular construction: what is appreciated (or not appreciated) costitutes the subiect of the verb; while the person who likes (or not) someone or something is expressed through a personal pronoun.
The grammatical subject, to which the verb agrees, is la pasta.
Ti is the personal pronoun that explains who likes pasta: in this case, ti = a te: to you, unstressed and indirect object pronoun of second person.
- If someone likes two or more things, the plural form piacciono must be used.
The grammatical subject, to which the verb agrees, is i biscotti.
Gli is the personal pronoun that explain by who pasta is liked: in this case: gli = a lui, to him, unstressed and indirect pronoun of third person.
- The verb piacere can be followed by the infinive form of another verb.
- The negative adverb non is used to say that someone doesn’t like something.
- In italian many other verbs have the same construction of piacere.
- Piace and piacciono are present tenses. The verb can be conjugated in all the tenses and all the moods. The auxiliary verb of piacere and of the other verbs having the same construction is to be, essere.