"You will like that Italian restaurant."

Translation: Вам понравится этот итальянский ресторан.

[alantrousers]

I wrote вам понравится тот италияньский ресторан and lost a life.
Doesn't этот mean "this" and тот mean "that"?

[Theron126]

Тот isn't generally used except when you are contrasting between этот and тот.

[alantrousers]

Ah, okay. Interesting to know.

[MagoGi2]

Nonetheless I wrote зтот and was told I had a typo: it should have been тот!

[Lucia380]

You wrote an и instead of the softsign ь after the л in итальянский , perhaps that is the reason?

[cassandra280103]

Why not тебе?

[jtaylor162]

Actually "Тебе понравится этот итальянский ресторан" is accepted (using either этот or even тот, although it appears that тот is a bit awkward if not strictly wrong).

[DennisSwai1]

How exactly does the future sense come into this? It's a perfective verb, right?

[qbeast]

The present tense of perfective verbs usually translates into the future tense in English.

[Davedavido]

Why is «ты полюбишь» not accepted? Different shade of meaning?

[Antixity]

I believe Любить is reserved for things that you have an established long-term "liking" for, such as "I like Italian restaurants". The sentence in this exercise seems to me to suggest something less long-term, like "try this restaurant [even if only just once], you'll like it".

[Marc639442]

It seems that the proper way to use любит is when the object is people: you love your wife, children, parents, etc..
and нравится is use for inanimate: you like hockey, to watch TV, reading, ect..

[jtaylor162]

But we have been taught that любить means "love" when the object is people, and "like" when it is something inanimate (food, etc.), and DL often accepts both the DATIVE + нравится and the NOMINATIVE + любит forms to translate "like" in various sentences. I share Davedavido's confusion!