To celebrate Valentine's Daywe would like to share an Italian term that describes someone deeply loved: like.
it comes from verb fall in love with (fascinated / make people fall in love with you) and fall in love (fall in love), which are derivatives of nouns Amore (like) with prefix exist-.
like is an adjective, which means that its form changes depending on the subject being discussed.If you are talking about a man in love, you need to use the masculine form likewhile the female equivalent is like.Their respective plural forms are lover and like.it usually occurs in the accompaniment of a preposition of (of).
Giulio falls in love with Chiara.
Giulio falls in love with Chiara.
In informal Italian you might see like followed by the word crazy (crazy), which is just an idiomatic way of saying that someone is madly in love or infatuated.Or you can use adjectives Cotto (cooked) or personal (lost) replace crazy.
My sister is madly in love with an Italian boy.
My sister is deeply in love with an Italian boy.
Although often associated with individuals, like Emotions directed toward objects can also be depicted.In this case, some possible translations include Passionate, like very much, crazy about itor simply to love.
I fell in love with the Amalfi Coast.
I love the Amalfi Coast.
like It can also be used as a noun, and its meaning is lover or Lovebirds. For example, two lovers can be translated as Two lovers/lovebirds.
Heather Broster is a graduate with honors in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, fluent in English and Italian, as well as varying degrees of fluency in Japanese, Welsh and French. Originally from Toronto, Heather has lived in several countries, notably Italy for six years. Her main research areas are language acquisition, education and bilingual teaching.
