"Podoba mi się twoja sukienka."
Translation:I like your dress.
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So, they are safely interchangeable? Good to know, I too wondered when this new verb appeared.
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Ah, so that's the difference. Thanks a lot, but it's obvious why it could not be translated distinctively into English.
"twoja sukienka" is in Nominative because technically... it's the subject of the sentence here. It's kinda like an English sentence "Your dress is pleasing to me". You'll see something similar in Spanish: Me gusta tu vestido. Although of course Spanish doesn't have cases.
So the verb "podoba się" is the 3rd person singular, because it has to match "twoja sukienka", which we can treat as "it".
About your sentence, you could maybe get away with "Twoja sukienka podoba się mnie" (at least the pronoun at the end is the accented version), but I'd stick to either "Podoba mi się twoja sukienka" or "Twoja sukienka mi się podoba".
I'm using the app, so I can't tell how 'old' your question is... Also I'm not a native. But here's how I understand it: Some verbs that use się do not take an object - for example urodzić się. Other verbs that use się DO take an object - for example podobać się like in this sentence, the object being a personal pronoun in the dative case, mi. (Someone correct me if that was wrong please)
Yeah ... 'podoba mi się' can be quite a difficult phrase to translate to/interpret in English, whilst conveying the appropriate meaning, according to the context of the rest of the sentence. For some of the Polish sentences on Duo 'appeals to me' is accepted as a translation. But I do agree that in this context 'Your dress appeals to me', would be an odd/unnatural thing to say someone, even if it does make sense in English.
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To get the reflexivity into the sentence, you might use, 'Your dress makes itself appealing to me'.
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I don't know how to predict the correct word order. 'Mi podoba się' and 'Podoba się mi' seem to me just as plausible as 'Podoba mi się'.
If Jan liked the dress, would it be 'Podoba Janowi się twoja sukienka'?
Mi podoba się... doesn't work, because you can't start a sentence with an unaccented object pronoun (however, some natives do it anyway).
Technically, Podoba się mi... is correct, but a search in the National Corpus suggests that this word order is almost 60 times less common than Podoba mi się.... Hence, I won't accept it for now, but I'll ask the team to confirm this decision.
Now, with nouns, it's a bit different. I've searched the corpus for sentences that start with:
1) [Noun] + się + [podobać] -> 27 results.
2) [Podobać] + się + [noun] -> 51 results.
3) [Noun] + [podobać] + się -> 80 results.
4) [Podobać] + [noun] + się -> 0 results.
So, I'd say that only Podoba się Janowi..., Janowi się podoba... and Janowi podoba się... are acceptable options.
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Thanks for your reply.
So 'Mnie podoba się' might be all right?
As for the last four searches, were those nouns all in the dative case (rather than nominative)?