REVERSABLE VERBS/ I LIKE THEM

[Anne]

Haresvat mi

vs.

haresvam gi

BOTH mean "I like them"

Can you do his reversible thing with any old verb or just a select handful ?

ciao

[Dave]

не знае ми !

(does this mean "dunno" ? = it is not known to me)

[Lee and Ian Dodds]

But why do they mean the same? I though the first one was 'they like me' can you explain the rule?

Lee

[Stoya]

"Харесвам ги" is the equivalent of "I like them".

"харесват ми" is the equivalent of "they appeal to me"

Different shades of meaning - in the first example I perform the action of liking a certain object, in the second the object performs the action of appealing to me. In English this is done by two different verbs, in Bulgarian - by two meanings of the same verb.