"Этому человеку не нравится наша музыка."
Translation:That person does not like our music.
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We will not be friends with that person. We will very painfully not be friends with that person.
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I used ''guy'' instead of person...in my translation and was marked wrong. I think is should be accepted as an alternative to person.
With нравиться, the thing that is liked is in nominative case and the thing that does the liking is in dative case. It's more like "our music is not pleasing to him".
I think of нравится as "is pleasing" or "is liked", so that "This music [subject of sentence] is not liked by that person." It's easy to understand why "that person" is dative in this format, because dative is translates as being "at", "to", "by", "for" [noun/pronoun].
Because when you use нравиться the object is in nominative case while the subject is in the dative case
Almost. Музыка is the subject, so it's in the nominative case, and the object is человек, so it takes the dative case "человеку."
The музыка [subj.] нравится to the человеку [obj.]. The music pleases the person.
The sentence is structured as "Our music does not appeal to this person."
"To this person" is этому человеку. The nominative case, этот человек, declines to the dative case, этому человеку.
It wouldn't be "это" because человек is a masculine noun. Это is a neuter noun determiner
I think of нравится as "is pleasing" or "is liked", so that "This music [subject of sentence] is not liked by that person." It's easy to understand why "that person" is dative in this format, because dative is translates as being "at", "to", "by", "for" [noun/pronoun].
