plaire.
to please, to appeal to (usually translated into English as like with exchange of subject and object)
Meaning & usage
to please, to appeal to (usually translated into English as like with exchange of subject and object)
Cet homme me plait
Cette robe me plait.
to enjoy (oneself)
Je me suis plu à Paris.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle French plaire, from Old French plaire, from plaisir, from Latin placēre. The original infinitive has now became a noun, and the infinitive ending was changed to -aire by analogy with the future and conditional forms in plair-. The future stem came from Latin pluperfect stem placuer- (placueram, placuerās, ...); some other verbs also use the pluperfect stem for their future stems (but not in the case of pluperfect forms containing -s- or -x-), for example tenir, tiendrai (if using the infinitive form, it results on expected *tenirai < tenī́re hábeō), see also Appendix:French verbs#Origins.
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