líbit

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech ľúbiti, from Proto-Slavic *ľubiti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ljaubī́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰéyeti, from *lewbʰ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈliːbɪt]
  • Hyphenation: lí‧bit

Verb

líbit impf (perfective zalíbit)

  1. (reflexive with se) to please [+dative someone] (idiomatically translated by English like with subject and object reversed)
    Antonym: nelíbit
    Líbí se ti tahle pohovka? ― Do you like this sofa?
    Líbíš se mi. ― I like you.
    Oni to udělají, ať se ti to líbí nebo ne. ― They'll do it, whether you like it or not.

Usage notes

  • 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

Further reading

  • líbiti in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • líbiti in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • líbit in Internetová jazyková příručka
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