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.

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!

Conjugation

• See fall.

Antonyms

• fall out of love

Derived terms

• falling in love, falling-in-love

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: وقع بحب (ar) (wáqaʿa bi-ḥább)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: zamilovat se (cs)
• Danish: forelske sig i (da), blive forelsket i (da)
• Dutch: verliefd worden (nl), verlieven (nl)
• Esperanto: enamiĝi (eo)
• Finnish: rakastua (fi)
• French: tomber amoureux (fr) (of a man or a person designated by a masculine noun), tomber amoureuse (of a woman or a person designated by a feminine noun), s'amouracher (fr)
• German: sich verlieben (de)

• Greek: ερωτεύομαι (el) (erotévome)
• Italian: innamorarsi (it)
• Japanese: 大好きになる (ja) (daisuki ni naru), 惚れる (ja) (ほれる, horeru), 恋に落ちる (ja) (koi ni ochiru)
• Korean: 사랑에 빠지다 (ko) (sarang-e bbajida)
• Latin: exardesco (la), amorem ardeo (la)
• Norwegian: forelske (no)
• Polish: zakochać się (pl)
• Portuguese: apaixonar-se (pt), enamorar-se (pt)
• Romanian: (se) îndrăgosti (ro)
• Russian: влюбляться (ru) (vljubljátʹsja) impf., влюбиться (ru) (vljubítʹsja) pf., полюбить (ru) (poljubítʹ) pf.
• Scottish Gaelic: gabh gaol (gd)
• Slovene: zaljubiti se (sl)
• Spanish: enamorarse (es)
• Swedish: bli kär (sv), förälska sig (sv)
• Turkish: aşık olmak (tr)

to come to have feelings of love towards each other

• Albanian: dashurohem (sq)
• Czech: zamilovat se (cs)
• Danish: forelske sig i (da), blive forelsket i (da)
• Dutch: verliefd worden (nl), verlieven (nl)
• Esperanto: enamiĝi (eo)
• Finnish: rakastua (fi)
• French: tomber amoureux (fr) (of a man or a person designated by a masculine noun), tomber amoureuse (of a woman or a person designated by a feminine noun)
• German: sich verlieben (de)

• Greek: ερωτεύομαι (el) (erotévome)
• Italian: innamorarsi (it)
• Latin: exardesco (la), amorem ardeo (la)
• Polish: zakochać się (pl)
• Portuguese: apaixonar-se (pt), enamorar-se (pt)
• Russian: влюбляться (ru) (vljubljátʹsja) impf., влюбиться (ru) (vljubítʹsja) pf.
• Slovene: zaljubiti se (sl)
• Spanish: enamorarse (es)
• Swedish: bli kär (sv), förälska sig (sv)

to come to have feelings of intense liking

• Finnish: ihastua (fi)
• German: sich verlieben (de)
• Hungarian: beleszeret (hu)

• Italian: innamorarsi (it)
• Latin: exardesco (la), amorem ardeo (la)
• Scottish Gaelic: gabh gaol (gd)
• Swedish: förälska sig (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• French: tomber amoureux de (when the subject of the verb is a male or translated by a masculine noun), tomber amoureuse de (when the subject of the verb is a woman or translated by a feminine noun)

• Portuguese: apaixonar-se por
• Swedish: bli kär (i), förälska (sig i)