What's the difference between [好]{この}む and [好]{す}き?
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What's the difference between 好む and 好き
好む/好み = Prefer, or for formal / objective usage

好き = Like, casual and subjective usage

It's safer to use 好む when talking about someone else's tastes. If you need to
use like in a business setting, it would be appropriate to use 好み.
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First of all, they belong to different word classes. 好き is a na-adjective, and
好む is a transitive verb.

  * リンゴ **が** 好き **です** 。 I like apples.
  * リンゴ **を** 好み **ます** 。 I like apples.

Semantically, they both mean "to like [something]", but 好き is **much** more
common in Japanese, and you should be using it most of the time.

In English, there is both a verb version ("I like apples") and an adjective
version ("I am fond of apples") to describe this idea, but people usually use
the former version. In Japanese, this is different, and we normally use the
na-adjective version. In Japanese, 好む is a word that is only _sometimes_ used
in stiff sentences.
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