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- "She liked it immediately."
"She liked it immediately."
Translation:Le è piaciuto immediatamente.
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Wouldn't it be "le piaceva immediatemente" which is what I used but it was apparently wrong.
Why does piacere take essere as an auxiliary verb here and not avere? So, why is it not 'le ha piacuto'?
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"Piacere" is non transitive verb and it always wants "essere" as auxiliary verb. In English the sentence is "I like ice-cream" --> I is the subject, ice-cream the object. In Italian the sentence is "Mi piace il gelato" = "Il gelato piace a me" (The ice-cream is liked by me). Gelato is the subject. In this particular sentence would be "It was liked by her immediately". If you use this construction even in English "to be" is the auxiliary verb.
So where's the "it" in this?
Without the actual subject mentioned, this could be as well be "She liked him immediately", right?
And where did the "a" disappear? Do you not use it if the subject of piace is not explicitly mentioned?
Is it just a rule that '-e' in "le" does not elide (i.e. le + è= l'è). I wrote "l'è piaciuto immediatamente" and it was wrong...Even if it is a rule, do any Italian speakers actually pronounce it separately as "le è"?
Yes, because the subject of this sentence is actually "it." A closer translation would be "It was immediately pleasing to her." Thus, "her" being represented by "le"
It was accepted when I tried it. As I understand it, if the object she liked is a feminine noun, it works.
