have fun

English

Verb

have fun (third-person singular simple present has fun, present participle having fun, simple past and past participle had fun)

1. To enjoy oneself; to experience enjoyable activities.

   Blondes have more fun.

   Person 1: I'm going to the bathroom.
   Person 2: Don't have too much fun.

   • 1979, Robert Hazard (lyrics and music), “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, in She's So Unusual‎^[1], performed by Cyndi Lauper, published 1983:

     I come home, in the mornin' light / My mother says "when you gonna live your life right" / Oh momma, dear, we're not the fortunate ones / And girls, they wanna have fun / Oh, girls just wanna have fun

Derived terms

• time flies when you're having fun

Translations

enjoy oneself

• Arabic: مَرِحَ (mariḥa)
• Azerbaijani: əylənmək
• Catalan: divertir-se (ca), entretenir-se (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玩得開心／玩得开心 (wán de kāixīn)

• Czech: bavit se (cs)
• Dutch: lol maken
• Esperanto: amuziĝi
• Finnish: pitää hauskaa (fi), huvitella (fi), rillutella (colloquial)
• French: s’amuser (fr), s’égayer (fr)
• Galician: divírtete
• German: Spaß haben
• Greek: διασκεδάζω (el) (diaskedázo)
• Hebrew: נֶהֱנָה (he) (nehená), כִּיֵּף (he) (kiyyéf) (informal)
• Hindi: मस्ती करना (mastī karnā)
• Hungarian: szórakozik (hu), jól szórakozik, jól érzi magát
• Italian: divertirsi (it)
• Japanese: 楽しむ (ja) (たのしむ, tanoshimu)
• Korean: 즐기다 (ko) (jeulgida)
• Latin: oblector
• Polish: bawić się impf
• Portuguese: divertir-se
• Romanian: se distra (ro)
• Russian: наслажда́ться (ru) (naslaždátʹsja), весели́ться (ru) (veselítʹsja), развлека́ться (ru) (razvlekátʹsja), забавля́ться (ru) (zabavljátʹsja)
• Spanish: divertirse (es), pasárselo bien, gasajarse (es)
• Swedish: ha roligt (sv), ha kul, ha skoj
• Turkish: eğlenmek (tr)

Interjection

have fun

1. Used to wish somebody a good and enjoyable time when they are about to do something.

Translations

wish someone a good time

• Arabic: اِسْتَمْتِعْ (istamtiʕ)
• Catalan: diverteix-te
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 祝你玩得開心／祝你玩得开心 (zhù nǐ wán de kāixīn)

• Czech: bav se (unformal), bavte se (formal)
• Dutch: veel plezier
• Finnish: pidä hauskaa sg, pitäkää hauskaa pl
• French: amuse-toi bien !, amusez-vous bien !
• German: viel Spaß!, gönn dir
• Greek: καλή διασκέδαση f (kalí diaskédasi)
• Hungarian: jó szórakozást (independent of formality and number), érezd jól magad (singular, informal), érezze jól magát (singular, formal), érezzétek jól magatokat (plural, informal), érezzék jól magukat (plural, formal)
• Icelandic: góða skemmtun (is)
• Italian: divertiti (singular), divertitevi (plural), buon divertimento
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kos deg! (singular), kos dere! (plural)

  Nynorsk: kos deg! (singular), kos dykk! (plural)

• Polish: baw się dobrze!, dobrej zabawy!
• Portuguese: divirta-se, se divirta
• Romanian: distracție plăcută
• Russian: (жела́ю/жела́ем) хорошо́ повесели́ться (xorošó poveselítʹsja), (жела́ю/жела́ем) хорошо́ провести́ вре́мя (xorošó provestí vrémja)
• Scottish Gaelic: feuch gun còrd e riut (informal and singular), feuch gun còrd e ribh (formal singular; plural), gabh spòrs (colloquial)
• Spanish: diviértete! (es), pásatelo bien
• Swedish: ha det så roligt, ha det så kul
• Turkish: çok eğlen, çok eğlenin pl, iyi eğlenceler
• Ukrainian: (бажа́ю/бажа́ємо) до́бре повесели́тися (dóbre poveselýtysja), (бажа́ю/бажа́ємо) до́бре провести́ ча́с (dóbre provestý čás)