From ek- + ami.
- IPA(key): [eˈkami]
- Rhymes: -ami
- Hyphenation: e‧ka‧mi
ekami (present ekamas, past ekamis, future ekamos, conditional ekamus, volitive ekamu)
- (transitive) to begin to love, fall in love with
- Stellan Engholm, Vivo vokas, Ĉapitro 3,
- — Jam la unuan fojon, kiam ni estis kune, mi ekamis vin, li diris, ekamis, kiel kulpa pentanto ekamas homon, kiu akceptas lin.
- “The first time we were together, I fell in love with you,” he said, “[I] fell in love as a guilty penitent falls in love with someone who accepts him.”
- Vladimir Okc (translator), Unuetaĝa Usono (Одноэтажная Америка / Little Golden America) by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, Chapter 11,
- Jam vespere ŝajnas, ke li sukcesis ekami la urbeton.
- In the evening it already seems that he has managed to fall in love with the town.
- enamiĝi (“to fall in love”, intransitive verb)