Sentences: gefallen

verb

Generated 2026-03-04  ·  Level: A1

Simple 3 sentences

1.Simple
Das gefällt mir.
→ I like that.
📝 Gefallen works like 'gustar': the thing liked is the subject (Das), and the person uses dative (mir = to me).
2.Simple
Die Stadt gefällt dir.
→ You like the city.
📝 Dir is the dative of 'du'; die Stadt is the nominative subject of gefällt.
3.Simple
Musik gefällt ihr.
→ She likes music.
📝 Ihr here is dative of 'sie' (she); Musik is the subject without an article.

Medium 3 sentences

4.Medium
Das Essen im Restaurant gefällt mir sehr.
→ I like the food in the restaurant very much.
📝 Im = in + dem (dative contraction); sehr modifies gefällt as an adverb of degree.
5.Medium
Die Hotels in Wien gefallen uns gut.
→ We like the hotels in Vienna.
📝 Plural subject (die Hotels) requires the plural verb form 'gefallen'; uns is dative of 'wir'.
6.Medium
Wie gefällt Ihnen das Hotel in München?
→ How do you like the hotel in Munich?
📝 Ihnen is the dative of formal 'Sie'; 'Wie' starts the sentence, pushing the verb to second position.

Complex 4 sentences

7.Complex
Das Stadtmuseum hat mir gestern sehr gut gefallen.
→ I liked the city museum very much yesterday.
📝 Perfekt: hat + gefallen (past participle); gefallen uses 'haben' as its auxiliary verb.
8.Complex
Der Strand gefällt meiner Familie, und wir kommen jeden Sommer.
→ My family likes the beach, and we come every summer.
📝 Meiner Familie is dative feminine; 'und' joins two main clauses with normal verb-second word order in each.
9.Complex
Das Hotel gefällt mir nicht, aber das Zimmer ist sauber.
→ I don't like the hotel, but the room is clean.
📝 Negation 'nicht' goes at the end of the verb phrase; 'aber' (but) is a coordinating conjunction.
10.Complex
Hat dir die Reise nach Berlin gut gefallen?
→ Did you like the trip to Berlin?
📝 Perfekt yes/no question: 'hat' moves to first position; past participle 'gefallen' goes to the end.