fall in love

English

Verb

fall in love (third-person singular simple present falls in love, present participle falling in love, simple past fell in love, past participle fallen in love)

1. (intransitive, of a person, animate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of love directed at another person or a thing.

   I fell in love with him the moment I first saw him.

2. (intransitive, reciprocal) To come to have feelings of love towards each other.

   They met, fell in love, got married, and lived happily ever after.

   • 2017, Ed Sheeran, Perfect

     'Cause we were just kids when we fell in love
     Not knowing what it was
     I will not give you up this time.

3. (intransitive, of a person, inanimate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of intense liking directed at another person or a thing.

   I have just fallen in love with Rome!

Synonyms

• enamour

Antonyms

• fall out of love
• disenamour

Derived terms

• falling in love, falling-in-love (noun)

Translations

to come to have feelings of love

• Albanian: dashurohem (sq)
• American Sign Language: 1@Mouth-OpenB@CenterTrunkhigh-PalmUp RoundMidline 1@BasePalm-OpenB@CenterTrunkhigh-PalmUp RoundMidline 1@TipPalm-OpenB@CenterTrunkhigh-PalmUp
• Arabic: وَقَعَ بِحَبّ (waqaʿa bi-ḥabb)
• Belarusian: улюбля́цца impf (uljubljácca), улюбі́цца pf (uljubícca), закаха́цца pf (zakaxácca), палюбі́ць pf (paljubícʹ)
• Bulgarian: влю́бвам се impf (vljúbvam se), влю́бя се pf (vljúbja se)
• Catalan: enamorar-se (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愛上／爱上 (zh) (àishàng), 爱上 (zh) (àishàng), 掉入愛河之中／掉入爱河之中, 掉入爱河之中 (diàorù ài hé zhīzhōng), 墮入情網／堕入情网, 堕入情网 (duòrù qíngwǎng), 鍾情／钟情 (zh) (zhōngqíng), 钟情 (zh) (zhōngqíng)

• Czech: zamilovat se
• Danish: forelske sig i, blive forelsket i
• Dutch: verliefd worden, verlieven
• Esperanto: enamiĝi, ekami (eo)
• Finnish: rakastua (fi)
• French: tomber amoureux (fr) m, tomber amoureuse f, s’amouracher (fr)
• German: sich verlieben (de)
• Greek: ερωτεύομαι (el) (erotévomai)
• Hebrew: התאהב (he)
• Hungarian: beleszeret (hu)
• Ido: ameskar (io)
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• Italian: innamorarsi (it)
• Japanese: 大好きになる (daisuki ni naru), 惚れる (ja) (ほれる, horeru), 恋に落ちる (koi ni ochiru)
• Korean: 사랑에 빠지다 (sarang'e ppajida), 반하다 (ko) (banhada)
• Latin: exardesco, amorem ardeo
• Norwegian: forelske
• Polish: zakochać się (pl)
• Portuguese: apaixonar-se, enamorar-se
• Romanian: (se) îndrăgosti (ro)
• Russian: влюбля́ться (ru) impf (vljubljátʹsja), влюби́ться (ru) pf (vljubítʹsja), полюби́ть (ru) pf (poljubítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: gabh gaol
• Slovene: zaljubiti se
• Spanish: enamorarse (es)
• Swedish: bli kär, förälska sig (sv)
• Telugu: ప్రేమలోపడు (prēmalōpaḍu)
• Thai: ตกหลุมรัก (dtòk-lǔm-rák), หลงรัก (lǒng-rák)
• Tibetan: སེམས་ཤོར (sems shor)
• Turkish: âşık olmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: зако́хуватися impf (zakóxuvatysja), закоха́тися pf (zakoxátysja), полюби́ти pf (poljubýty)

to come to have feelings of love towards each other

• Albanian: dashurohem (sq)
• Bulgarian: влю́бвам се impf (vljúbvam se), влю́бя се pf (vljúbja se)
• Czech: zamilovat se
• Danish: forelske sig i, blive forelsket i
• Dutch: verliefd worden, verlieven
• Esperanto: enamiĝi
• Finnish: rakastua (fi)
• French: tomber amoureux (fr) m, tomber amoureuse f
• German: sich verlieben (de)
• Greek: ερωτεύομαι (el) (erotévomai)
• Hungarian: egymásba szeret
• Ido: ameskar (io)
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• Italian: innamorarsi (it)
• Latin: exardesco, amorem ardeo
• Polish: zakochać się (pl)
• Portuguese: apaixonar-se (pt), enamorar-se (pt)
• Romanian: (se) îndrăgosti (ro), (se) înamora (ro)
• Russian: влюбля́ться (ru) impf (vljubljátʹsja), влюби́ться (ru) pf (vljubítʹsja)
• Slovene: zaljubiti se
• Spanish: enamorarse (es), amartelarse (es)
• Swedish: bli kära, förälska sig (sv)
• Telugu: ప్రేమలోపడు (prēmalōpaḍu)

to come to have feelings of intense liking

• Bulgarian: влю́бвам се impf (vljúbvam se), влю́бя се pf (vljúbja se)
• Finnish: ihastua (fi)
• German: sich verlieben (de)
• Hungarian: beleszeret (hu)
• Italian: innamorarsi (it)
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• Latin: exardesco, amorem ardeo
• Romanian: (se) îndrăgosti (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: gabh gaol
• Swedish: bli kär, förälska sig (sv)

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• (deprecated template usage) French: tomber amoureux de m, tomber amoureuse de f
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