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 [with 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.