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)

(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.
(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, 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!

Antonyms

fall out of love

Derived terms

falling in love, falling-in-love (noun)

Translations

to come to have feelings of love

Albanian: dashurohem (sq)
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Arabic: وَقَعَ بِحَبّ‎ (waqaʿa bi-ḥabb)
Belarusian: улюбля́цца impf (uljubljácca), улюбі́цца pf (uljubícca), закаха́цца pf (zakaxácca), палюбі́ць pf (paljubícʹ)
Catalan: enamorar-se (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 愛上 (zh), 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 (zh), 钟情 (zh) (zhōngqíng)
Czech: zamilovat se
Danish: forelske sig i, blive forelsket i
Dutch: verliefd worden, verlieven
Esperanto: enamiĝi, ekami
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) (erotévomai)
Hebrew: התאהב‎ (he)
Hungarian: beleszeret (hu)
Ido: ameskar (io)

Italian: innamorarsi (it)
Japanese: 大好きになる (daisuki ni naru), 惚れる (ja) (ほれる, horeru), 恋に落ちる (koi ni ochiru)
Korean: 사랑에 빠지다 (sarang-e bbajida), 반하다 (ko) (banhada)
Latin: exardesco, amorem ardeo
Norwegian: forelske
Polish: zakochać się (pl)
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
Slovene: zaljubiti se
Spanish: enamorarse (es)
Swedish: bli kär, förälska sig (sv)
Telugu: ప్రేమలోపడు (prēmalōpaḍu)
Thai: ตกหลุมรัก, หลงรัก
Tibetan: སེམས་ཤོར (sems shor)
Turkish: âşık olmak (tr)
Ukrainian: зако́хуватися impf (zakóxuvatysja), закоха́тися pf (zakoxátysja), полюби́ти pf (poljubýty)

to come to have feelings of love towards each other

Albanian: dashurohem (sq)
Czech: zamilovat se
Danish: forelske sig i, blive forelsket i
Dutch: verliefd worden, verlieven
Esperanto: enamiĝi
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) (erotévomai)
Hungarian: egymásba szeret
Ido: ameskar (io)

Italian: innamorarsi (it)
Latin: exardesco, amorem ardeo
Polish: zakochać się (pl)
Portuguese: apaixonar-se, enamorar-se
Romanian: (se) îndrăgosti (ro), (se) înamora (ro)
Russian: влюбля́ться (ru) impf (vljubljátʹsja), влюби́ться (ru) pf (vljubítʹsja)
Slovene: zaljubiti se
Spanish: enamorarse (es)
Swedish: bli kära, förälska sig (sv)
Telugu: ప్రేమలోపడు (prēmalōpaḍu)

to come to have feelings of intense liking

Finnish: ihastua (fi)
German: sich verlieben (de)
Hungarian: beleszeret (hu)
Italian: innamorarsi (it)

Latin: exardesco, amorem ardeo
Romanian: (se) îndrăgosti (ro)
Scottish Gaelic: gabh gaol
Swedish: bli kär, förälska sig (sv)

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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)