喜ぶ

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 喜ぶ, read よろこぶ, is an intransitive verb for feeling or showing joy at welcome news or an outcome.
• Basic usage: The pleased person is the subject in 家族が喜ぶ, and also in the relative clause 祖父が喜ぶ贈り物.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Experiencer as subject
  • With 喜ぶ, the person who feels joy is the grammatical subject; the gift itself is not the subject of that clause.
• Be pleased versus please someone
  • 喜ぶ is intransitive for being pleased, while causing another person to feel joy is expressed with a form such as 喜ばせる.