How do I say 'He liked' the people there?? I want to say; ‘He liked the people there’ I have always found saying ‘to like’ something in German a bit confusing and putting this in the past tense has further added to the confusion! I an aware of two ways of saying ‘to like’ in German. Firstly, using ‘mag’ with a noun; zum Beispiel; ‘Ich mag Tennis’ Or with a verb to use ‘gern’, zum Beispiel’; ‘Ich spiele gern Tennis’ However in my sentence; ‘He liked the people there’ If I use the verb ‘mögen’ in the imperfect to signify the past, then it becomes ‘möchte’ which of course means ‘would like’ and so has a completely different (and incorrect) meaning in this sentence?? For instance I have always used ‘ich möchte’ in the sense of ‘Ich möchte einen Kaffee’ meaning ‘I would like to have’?? I seem to be misunderstanding something here?? Would I therefore in this sentence use the Perfect tense, and hence say; ‘Er hat die Leute dort gemocht’ I don’t think you could use ‘gern’ as there is no verb in the sentence, so it looks like it has to be ‘mag’ but not sure if this sounds right. I’m totally confused on this, and hope that once again someone will be kind enough to share their expertise in explaining this to me. Thanks Gemma