líbit
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Czech ľúbiti, from Proto-Slavic *ľubiti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ljaubī́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰéyeti, from *lewbʰ-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]líbit impf (perfective zalíbit)
- (reflexive with se) to please [with dative ‘someone’] (idiomatically translated by English like with subject and object reversed)
Usage notes
[edit]- The person doing the liking is in the dative case, while the person/thing that is liked is in the nominative case. A comparable construction in English would be "It is pleasing to me" or "It appeals to me".
- Kočky se mi líbí. ― I like cats. (literally, “Cats are pleasing to me.”)
Conjugation
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The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive líbit. |
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