ekami

Esperanto

Etymology

From ek- + ami.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ekˈami/
  • Hyphenation: ek‧a‧mi
  • Rhymes: -ami

Verb

ekami (present ekamas, past ekamis, future ekamos, conditional ekamus, volitive ekamu)

  1. (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.

Conjugation

See also

  • enamiĝi (to fall in love, intransitive verb)
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