xoşu gəlmək

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Likely a calque of Persian خوش آمدن‎. In both languages, the construction is an impersonal one, where the liked object is in the ablative (in Persian expressed by the preposition از‎ (“from”)), whereas the subject of liking is the possessor of خوش‎/xoş as expressed by a possessive suffix inflected for person and number and (in Azerbaijani) an optional free possessive pronoun. The formal predicate is the verb 'to come'.

Verb

xoşu gəlmək

  1. (intransitive) to like [+ablative]
    Synonyms: xoşuna gəlmək, xoşlamaq, bəyənmək
    Səndən xoşum gəlir! ― I like you!
    Sənin futboldan xoşun gəlmir. ― You don't like football.
    Onun böyük auditoriya qarşısında səhnəyə çıxmaqdan çox xoşu gəlirdi.
    He liked it very much to go on stage in front of a large audience.
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