ABSTRACT

Ako sa vám tu páči? how do you like it here? (lit. how to you here does it please?)

Veľmi sa mi tu páči. I like it here very much (lit. very much to me here it pleases)

Language points

Pleasing and liking

By using páčiť sa ‘to please/be pleasing’ you can express a more immediate response of liking or not liking than the more fixed, habitual quality of mať rád ‘to like/love’:

Bratislava sa mi (ne)páči. Bratislava pleases/doesn’t please me.