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to fall in love with

to fall in love with

475 1.6
To begin to feel strong romantic feelings for someone or something
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : enamorarse de
  • I just fell in love with the culture.
  • fall in love with a person
  • fall in love with a woman
  • fall in love with a man

Hasn't someone in Japan fallen in love with his AI?

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Examples

  • And in that process, Evan, I started falling in love with people, their stories.

  • Oh, it is one of the reasons I fell in love with this house.

    Here (2024)

  • And she introduced us and I fell in love with her really fast.

    Evan Carmichael

  • And then you fall in love with it and you know it.

  • And I think what happens is people fall in love with their idea.

    Jay Shetty Podcast

  • We were just driving by and I just fell in love with the land itself.

  • Let me tell you a bit about the girl I fell in love with.

    Academic text (2004)

  • I'm surprised I fell in love with this so quickly and so hard.

  • As soon as I received my first note from Katya, I fell in love with her.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • I think I have finally fallen in love with you after all these years.

Synonyms

to fall in love
vsto fall in love with
950 2.5

To begin to feel strong romantic feelings for someone

is the same meaning but written with a following preposition to show object
to fall for
vsto fall in love with
  • Informal
84 3.7

To start to like someone as more than a friend

describes the same affection without the quick or sudden aspect
to lose one's heart
vsto fall in love with
1 4.7

To fall in love suddenly, often without planning

does not imply suddenness and focuses on starting strong romantic feeling
to catch feelings
vsto fall in love with
  • Slang
1 8.6

Begin to like someone in a romantic way

expresses strong romantic affection more neutrally rather than informally
to lose one's heart to
vsto fall in love with
1 4.4

To fall in love with someone or something

has identical sense but is phrased differently in wording

Antonyms

to unlove
9.3

To stop feeling love for someone or something

How Affectionate

head over heels
  • Informal
17 3.4
to fall in love with
475 1.6
to fall for
  • Informal
84 3.7
to like
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

fall in love with infinitive
falling in love with present participle
falls in love with third person singular
fell in love with past
fallen in love with past participle

Morphology

fall + in + love + with

The phrase can be compositionally parsed as 'fall' (enter/come into) + 'in' (into a state/location) + 'love' (intense affection), so the sense 'begin to feel romantic affection' is directly inferable from the constituents. This 'fall into love' metaphor is cross-linguistically common (e.g. French tomber amoureux, Japanese 恋に落ちる), making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the component words.

Etymology

The phrase fall in love with paints a picture of suddenly falling into a feeling called love, as if you slip and cannot control the movement into it. So, it means 'to begin to feel strong romantic affection for someone or something'.