ему понравилось

he liked it

→ он
phrase Rare #37,170
he liked it Literally, “it was pleasing to him.” Russian uses the dative ему (“to him”) with понравилось; the neuter form is used because the thing liked is unspecified or expressed by an infinitive, such as играть or работать.
RU: Ему понравилось путешествовать по России.
EN: He liked traveling around Russia.