enjoy

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ɛnˈdʒɔɪ/, /ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/, /ənˈdʒɔɪ/

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  Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Etymology

From Old French enjoir (en- +‎ joir), from Latin gaudere.

Verb

enjoy (third-person singular simple present enjoys, present participle enjoying, simple past and past participle enjoyed)

1. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something

   Enjoy your holidays!

   I enjoy dancing.

2. To have the use or benefit of something

   ...while I still enjoy good health...

   • 1988, Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays

     This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• enjoyable
• enjoyment
• to enjoy oneself

Translations

to receive pleasure or satisfaction from something

Albanian: gëzoj (sq) American Sign Language: OpenB@Chest-PalmBack-OpenB@Trunk-PalmBack RoundSurface-RoundSurface Arabic: استمتع (ar) (istamta3a) Bulgarian: радвам се (bg), изпитвам удоволствие (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 欣賞 (cmn), 欣赏 (cmn) (xīnshǎng), 喜愛 (cmn), 喜爱 (cmn) (xǐ'ài), 享受 (cmn) (xiǎngshòu) Czech: bavit (cs) Danish: nyde (da) Estonian: nautima (et) Finnish: nauttia (fi) French: (with a noun) profiter (fr) de, (with a verb) no translation German: genießen (de) Hungarian: élvez (hu) Ido: juar (io) Japanese: 楽しむ (ja) (tanoshimu)

Luxembourgish: genéissen (lb) Maltese: igawdu (mt) Persian: لذت بردن (fa) Portuguese: aproveitar (pt), desfrutar (pt) Romanian: savura (ro), a se bucura de (ro), a se distra (ro) Russian: наслаждаться (ru) (naslaždát'sja) impf., насладиться (ru) (nasladít'sja) pf. Scottish Gaelic: còrd ri (gd), meal (gd), gabh tlachd ann (gd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ужи́вати (sh), густирати (sh) Roman: užívati (sh), gustirati (sh) Spanish: disfrutar (es) Swahili: kujivinjari (sw) Swedish: tycka om (sv), njuta av (sv) Turkish: zevk almak (tr), haz almak (tr) Volapük: juitön (vo)

to have the use or benefit of something

Chinese: Mandarin: 享有 (cmn) (xiǎngyǒu) Czech: těšit se French: jouir (fr) de

Hungarian: élvez (hu) Swahili: kujivinjari (sw) Swedish: åtnjuta (sv)

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Catalan: gaudir Dutch: genieten (nl) French: jouir (fr) Hebrew: ‏נֶהֱנָה‎, ‏נִשְׂכַּר‎ Irish: bain sult (ga) as, bain taitneamh (ga) as Italian: godere (it)

Malayalam: ആസ്വദിയ്ക്കുക (aasvadikkuka) Norwegian: nyte (no), glede seg ved (no) Romanian: a se delecta Romansch: giudair Sardinian: godire Spanish: gozar (es) Polish: lubić (pl)