plăcea

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to please
 * 2) to be pleasant, pleasing

Usage notes
A plăcea is usually translated to English with the verb to like. This causes confusion for some English speakers studying Romanian, because the subject and object of a plăcea are seemingly reversed from those of to like. That is, the subject of a plăcea is the thing that pleases and the (indirect) object is the person who is pleased. A commonly used method is to think of a plăcea as literally meaning to be pleasing to.

First- and second-person use is uncommon, but grammatically solid: is equivalent to.