hoşuna gitmek

== Turkish == === Etymology === By surface analysis, hoş (“pleasant, delightful”) +‎ -u (“3rd person singular possessive”) +‎ -(n)a (“dative”) +‎ gitmek (“to go”), literally “to go to his/her/its pleasure”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ho.ʃuˈna ɟit.mec/ Hyphenation: ho‧şu‧na‧gi‧tmek === Verb === hoşuna gitmek (third-person singular simple present hoşuna gider) (intransitive) to please, to appeal to, to strike someone's fancy Synonyms: hoşlanmak, beğenmek ==== Usage notes ==== Despite their inverse agent-receiver structure, its closest semantic equivalents and most preferred translations are "to like" and "to enjoy." hoş must take the proper possessive suffix according to the receiver of the action. ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “hoşuna gitmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hoşuna gitmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1989