► 動詞
恋 [(1)こい] [恋する] [liter] meaning: love rank: 1
☆ 彼女は彼に恋している ⇨ She has a crush on him (☛ Romantic love. Like “have a crush on”, often about juvenile infatuation)
► 名詞
恋 [(1)こい] [liter] meaning: love rank: 1
☆ 恋は理屈ではない ⇨ Romance, love, is not about logic (☛ Romantic love)
More examples:
- 彼女は恋多き女だった ⇨ She has had a lot of love affairs
- 失恋の切ない思い ⇨ Heart-wrenching sadness of lost love
- 彼女は恋煩いしている ⇨ She is struggling with an unrequited love
- 彼女は失恋した ⇨ Her love has gone unrequited
- 若い頃は変に思ったが、人間は何歳になっても恋愛するものだ ⇨ I thought it was weird when I was young, but humans can fall in love at any age
- 一夏の恋 ⇨ A fleeting romance in one summer
- 家族が恋しい ⇨ I miss my family
- 色恋に常識はない ⇨ Love and sex have no common senses. All’s fair in love
- 恋愛は先手必勝だ ⇨ In love, you have to strike first to win (before your rivals)
- 失恋の痛み ⇨ The pain of rejection
- 恋愛は押しの一手だ ⇨ To woo someone, push is the only way to go, you have to be aggressive and persistent
- 彼は恋人と思しき女性と歩いていた ⇨ He was walking with a woman who seemed to be his girlfriend
- 失恋がふっ切れない ⇨ I can’t get over the lost love
- 彼女は彼のことを恋い焦がれている ⇨ She is burning with love for him
- 恋人との雰囲気に溢れた食事に御誂え向きのレストラン ⇨ A perfect restaurant to have a romantic dinner with a special someone