gefallen.
to please; to appeal to [with dative ‘someone’] (idiomatically translated by English like with the dative object as the subject)
Meaning & usage
to please; to appeal to [with dative ‘someone’] (idiomatically translated by English like with the dative object as the subject)
Diese Hose gefällt mir.
Dir wird es hier gefallen.
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German gevallen, from Old High German gifallan. Equivalent to ge- (expressing the terminative aspect) + fallen.
fallen, dropped
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