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## UNIT ELEVEN Piacere  and similar verbs 

1 Piacere  corresponds to ‘to like’, but it is used in a di ff erent way from its English counterpart. In Italian, the subject of the verb/sentence is the thing or person one likes; the person who likes something is denoted by an indirect object pronoun (see Unit 10): 

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2 Piacere  is an irregular verb mostly used in the third person singular ( piace ) and plural ( piacciono ). As can be seen in the examples, piace  is used if the thing that one likes is a singular noun or pronoun, or the in fi nitive of a verb; piacciono  is used if the things that one likes are a plural noun or pronoun: 

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