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)
- (intransitive, of a person, animate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of love, particularly romantic love.
I fell in love with him the moment I first saw him.
Have you ever fallen in love?
1975, Brian Potter, Dennis Lambert (lyrics and music), “It Only Takes a Minute”, in In the City, performed by Tavares:It only takes a minute girl / To fall in love
2019, Cavetown (lyrics and music), “Home”[2]:Often, I am upset / That I cannot fall in love, but I guess / This avoids the stress of falling out of it
- (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 (lyrics and music), “Perfect”:'Cause we were just kids when we fell in love
Not knowing what it was
I will not give you up this time.
- (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!
to come to have feelings of love
- Albanian: dashurohem (sq)
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- Arabic: وَقَعَ فِي حُبّ (waqaʕa fī ḥubb)
- Hijazi Arabic: عِشِق (ʕišig), حَبّ (ḥabb)
- Armenian: սիրահարվել (hy) (siraharvel)
- Azerbaijani: aşiq olmaq, vurulmaq
- Belarusian: улюбля́цца impf (uljubljácca), улюбі́цца pf (uljubícca), закаха́цца pf (zakaxácca), палюбі́ць pf (paljubícʹ)
- Bulgarian: влю́бвам се impf (vljúbvam se), влю́бя се pf (vljúbja se)
- Burmese: ရည်ငံ (my) (ranyngam)
- Catalan: enamorar-se (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 愛上/爱上 (zh) (àishàng), 掉入愛河之中/掉入爱河之中 (diàorù ài hé zhīzhōng), 墮入情網/堕入情网 (duòrù qíngwǎng), 鍾情/钟情 (zh) (zhōngqíng)
- Czech: zamilovat se pf
- Danish: forelske sig i, blive forelsket i
- Dutch: verliefd worden, verlieven (nl)
- Esperanto: enamiĝi, ekami (eo)
- Estonian: armuma (et)
- Finnish: rakastua (fi)
- French: tomber amoureux (fr) m, tomber amoureuse f, s’amouracher (fr)
- German: sich verlieben (de)
- Greek: ερωτεύομαι (el) (erotévomai)
- Hebrew: הִתְאַהֵב (he) (hit'ahév)
- Hindi: प्यार में पड़ना (pyār mẽ paṛnā)
- Hungarian: beleszeret (hu), szerelmes lesz
- Icelandic: verða ástfanginn (is)
- Ido: ameskar (io)
- Indonesian: jatuh cinta (id)
- Italian: innamorarsi (it)
- Japanese: 好きになる (すきになる, suki ni naru), 惚れる (ja) (ほれる, horeru), 恋に落ちる (こいにおちる, koi ni ochiru)
- Kazakh: ғашық болу (ğaşyq bolu)
- Khmer: ធ្លាក់ក្នុងអន្លង់ស្នេហ៍ (thlĕək knong ʼɑnlŭəng snae)
- Korean: 사랑에 빠지다 (sarang'e ppajida), 반하다 (ko) (banhada), 사랑하게 되다 (saranghage doeda)
- Kyrgyz: сүйүп калуу (ky) (süyüp kaluu), ашык болуу (ky) (aşık boluu)
- Latin: exardesco, amorem ardeo
- Latvian: iemīlēties
- Lithuanian: pamilti
- Macedonian: се вљубува impf (se vljubuva), се вљуби pf (se vljubi), се заљубува impf (se zaljubuva), се заљуби pf (se zaljubi), засакува impf (zasakuva), засака pf (zasaka)
- Norwegian: forelske
- Persian: عاشق شدن (fa) ('âšeq šodan)
- Polish: zakochiwać się impf, zakochać się (pl) pf
- 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
- Serbo-Croatian: zavoljeti (sh) pf
- Cyrillic: заљубљи́вати се impf, заљу́бити се pf
- Roman: zaljubljívati se (sh) impf, zaljúbiti se (sh) pf
- Slovak: zamilovať sa pf
- Slovene: zaljubiti se pf
- Spanish: enamorarse (es), embullarse (es) (crazily, Honduras)
- Swedish: bli kär, förälska sig (sv)
- Tajik: ошиқ шудан (ošiq šudan), шайдо шудан (šaydo šudan)
- Telugu: ప్రేమలోపడు (prēmalōpaḍu)
- Thai: ตกหลุมรัก (dtòk-lǔm-rák), หลงรัก (lǒng-rák)
- Tibetan: སེམས་ཤོར (sems shor)
- Turkish: âşık olmak (tr), vurulmak (tr)
- Turkmen: aşyk bolmak
- Ukrainian: зако́хуватися impf (zakóxuvatysja), закоха́тися pf (zakoxátysja), полюби́ти pf (poljubýty)
- Urdu: پیار میں پڑنا (pyār mẽ paṛnā), محبت میں پڑنا (muhabbat mẽ paṛnā)
- Uyghur: كۆيۈپ قالماق (köyüp qalmaq)
- Uzbek: oshiq boʻlmoq, sevib qolmoq
- Vietnamese: phải lòng (vi), đổ (vi)
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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 (nl)
- 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)
- Italian: innamorarsi (it)
- Japanese: 好きになる (すきになる, suki ni naru)
- Latin: exardesco, amorem ardeo
- Polish: zakochać się (pl)
- Portuguese: apaixonar-se, 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)
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to come to have feelings of intense liking
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