Verb to fall in love and other verbs with prepositions in Spanish related to love

Happy Valentine's Day! 😍

Today is the most romantic day of the year and that is why we bring you a very special article.

Let's see the verb fall in love and other verbs with preposition in Spanish related to love.

You will understand how each verb has its peculiarities and different uses, not only in the topic of love.

Also, if you wait until the end, you can practice these verbs with prepositions in Spanish with exercises. ✍️

Ready to fall in love?

Let's start!

Difference between wanting and loving

"Wanting" and "loving" are probably the most used verbs in Spanish to express love. But they are not exactly the same. 

Next, we will look at the difference between loving and loving.

⚠️Warning: unlike the rest of the verbs that you are going to learn, want and love They are not reflexive nor do they have a preposition.

What is the difference between wanting and loving?

The verb want is used to express the wish to do, get or achieve something. 

• Example: "I want to take a trip to Australia."

In the field of love, it is also used to express our affection and love to a person. 

• Example: "She loves her boyfriend."

Not only does it have romantic connotations, it is also used with family or friends. 

• Example: "I love my family very much."

love It is the verb of the noun love. Therefore, it is feel love for someone or something.

It could be said that the feeling of loving is purer than that of wanting, since here there is no desire to do or achieve, but simply an unconditional feeling of love.

We can use this verb withpeople.

• Example:"Joseph loves his wife."

And also with actions, places, things, animals... In these cases the verb to love would be similar to the verblove.

• Example:"I love this city." 

Do you understand now the difference between loving and loving? Brilliant!

We continue. 😉

fall in love with someone

We open ourlist of verbs with preposition in Spanishrelated to love. 

The first is «fall in love with». 

We use this verb to express thefalling in love processwhat happens to a person.

• Example:«My coworker is very pretty and attentive. Plus, we have many things in common. DailyI fall in love withher more."

When expressing a process, we can use the verbal periphrasis «estar + gerund».

• Example:«Lucía says thatis falling in love with"Julián little by little."

If you don't know what theverbal periphrases, we have a very complete article about it. They are very useful for speaking well in Spanish. 🙌

ANDhow to combineheverb fall in love? It's areflexive verb, therefore, you have to be careful with the personal pronoun.

Inpresentit would be like this:

Person	personal pronoun	Verb
I	ME	I fall in love
You	TEA	you fall in love
He/She/You	HE	fall in love
We	US	we fall in love
You	YOU	you fall in love
They/Them/You	HE	fall in love

In the indicative and subjunctive tenses thepronoun positionalways goesin front of the verb. 

Let's see, for example, inpast indefinite:

Person	personal pronoun	Verb
I	ME	I fell in love
You	TEA	you fell in love
He/She/You	HE	fell in love
We	US	we fall in love
You	YOU	you fell in love
They/Them/You	HE	they fell in love

Do you see it? The position of the pronoun is exactly the same.

Now that you know how theverbfalling in love and its meaning,we ask you one thing:try to memorize the preposition wellthat accompanies it, "de".

Many foreigners say "fall in love with" or "fall in love with", and that is a mistake. 

We know that it is difficult to remember the correct preposition that goes with each verb. 

There's only one way to do it right:Study and practice a lot. 😁

What is it to be in love with someone?

You already know what it's like to fall in love with someone. ANDbe in love with someone? Is it the same? 

They are very similar, although not exactly the same.

We have seen that falling in love with the person is aaction that has a process. Sometimes that process will be fast and other times it will be slow, but the process is always there.

Instead, "be in love with someone" it's aadjective, not an action. 

Being in love is considered amood. That is why theverb be.

• Example:"I have been very in love with Lola since the day I met her."

In Spanish, theparticiplesThey can have the function of adjectives. "In love" is one of them. 

Other examples of participles as adjectives They would be: being tired, being bored, being angry, being asleep, being excited... and many more.

Now that you know many things about the verb to fall in love, let's continue advancing with other verbs. 👉

hook up with someone

hook up with someone It is a more informal verb. When it comes to love, it can have two meanings.

What does it mean to hook up with someone?

On the one hand, hooking up with someone is kiss someone on the lips. 😚

• Example: «Rebeca got involved with Gerardo yesterday at the nightclub. "How strong!"

On the other hand, it is also used when a person has sexual relations with another, but without committing to having a serious relationship.

Do you know that if we remove “someone” and put “something” in its place, the verb to get involved changes completely?

In this situation it means get confused.

• Example: «I always get involved with the date of your birthday and your brother's. Tell me again, please.

make out with someone 

Now that you know what it's like to hook up with someone, you won't have any problems understanding the meaning of make out with someone.

It's practically the same.

What does it mean to hook up with someone?

Making out with someone is also kiss another person or have romantic relationships without being boyfriends. 

However, if we remove the part of "with someone" the verb get involved has other senses away from love. 

It is used when a person talks a lotand it can even be heavy.

• Example: «When Marcos talks about his trips he gets too rambling. "It bores me."

marry someone

What comes after a beautiful love story?

Well, if it lasts and seems like it will last forever, the next step for many people is to get married.

marry someone expresses the moment of wedding with the couple.

• Example: "I will marry my boyfriend next year."

Just as it happened with falling in love, we can also say "be married to someone» but in this case it is an adjective of marital status.

• Example: "I am married and have children."

separate from someone

Unfortunately, many times after a happy time with your partner, love ends and the time comes for separation. 😢

We use break up with someone when one love relationship ends and those two people are separated in that sense. 

• Example: «I have separated from Marta. "Our relationship has ended and we no longer live together."

But it's not the end of the world! We can still be friends, right?

hang on someone

Literally, hang on someone It is grabbing a person and not letting go, carrying the entire weight of your body.

Some children usually do this with their parents, hanging from their arms or legs.

Furthermore, this verb has another meaning related to love.

It means fall madly in love with someone to a point that can be harmful to your mental health because you are dependent on it.

• Example:"Jorge became so attached to Tania that when they separated, he went into a deep depression."

Of course, this is not good for anyone, so be very careful and don't hang on anyone!

The adjective is also used colloquially be hung as a synonym for be crazy or to express that a person she is drugged.

think of someone

think about someone It's simple, right?

It simply indicates that our thoughts are placed on a person. 

You can think of anyone: your girlfriend, your friend, your parents, your attractive Spanish teacher... 😏

If we love someone very much, it is normal for us to think about that person often.

• Example: "I love my girlfriend, I think about her every day."

We can also think about something.

• Example: "I think a lot about my future work."

What does it mean when you can't stop thinking about someone?

Now, yes you constantly think about a person and you can't get it out of your head... Houston, we have a problem. 

It means that that person occupies the center of your life and all your energy is focused on it. 

This can cause problems in your well-being and many disappointments when your expectations are not met. 

Do you remember the meaning of hanging on someone? Well we have reached this point. This is no longer love, but obsession.

stop thinking about someone

We present you another verbal periphrasis:

LEAVE + DE+ INFINITIVE

It serves to express the end of a habit.

Therefore, if we stop thinking about someone, it means that we no longer think about that person anymore.

Sometimes we fall so much in love with someone that it's normal to have that person at the center of our mind... for a while. 

Here are some tips if you want stop thinking about someone:

• Dedicate yourself to your hobbies.
• Take care of your family.
• Stay with your friends.
• Do sports.
• Learn Spanish in Hispania, Spanish school. 😁

And, above all, work hard. emotional intelligence. 🧠💓

dream about someone

dream about someone It is another of the verbs with prepositions in Spanish that can have more than one meaning. 

The most general meaning is think of a person while we are sleeping, that is, in dreams.

• Example: "Yesterday I dreamed about my friends, we were going skiing together."

As you see, there doesn't have to be a love connotation here.

Now let's see how use dream about someone for talk about love.

What does it mean to dream about someone

In the loving sense, dreaming about someone is used when we long very intensely to be with a person, but it cannot be at the moment or the love is not reciprocated.

In fact, it is often said "dream of being with someone».

• Example: "I dream of being with Aurora, but she wants another man."

contact someone

contact someone is one of the prepositional verbs most used in social relations in general.

It is used when we achieve communicate with another person through any means: face to face, by phone, by email, by chat...

¿How to contact someone what do you like? Nowadays there are many means, thanks to social networks you can contact that person you like so much.

But if he doesn't respond, let him be and don't be pushy. Live and let live.

We can also contact institutions: contact the hospital, contact the university, contact the police, etc.

say goodbye to someone

It's sad when a person we love goes to another city and we won't see them for a long time.

Nobody likes goodbyes, say goodbye to the people we value It's always painful.

How to say goodbye to someone who ignores you

And what happens if someone you like starts to notice that they no longer pay attention to you? 

It can be frustrating to see that someone who previously had an interest in you no longer has it.

We believe that, in this situation, there is no need to say goodbye.

It's better to just let it be and give that person time. Maybe she doesn't talk to you because she is too busy with other things.

Or yes, it could be that she no longer feels attracted to you, what are we going to do to her!? We are adults and we have to accept that these things happen.

Respect their decision and handle it in the noblest way possible, without emotional blackmail or anger.

So no dramas or creating uncomfortable situations! 

To something else. 😉

count on someone

We all like to feel that we can count on someone in our worst moments.

It means that we have people on our side whothey will support and help usalways, because they love us.

• Example:"If you need anything, you know you can count on me for whatever you want."

Counting on someone is also used to knowwho signs up for a plan.

• Example:«Alberto, are you coming to the party tonight, are we counting on you?»

Table of verbs with prepositions

We have already finished the list ofverbs with preposition related to love. 

In total we have seen11, remember that loving and loving do not have a preposition.

Now we are going to classify them into onetable according to the preposition. 

This will help you better memorize which preposition goes with each one.

OF	WITH	IN
fall in love with	marry	think about
separate from	get involved with
hang on	make out with
bid farewell to	dream about
	contact
	count on

In this article we have worked on these verbswith people.

Although remember that some can also gowith "something"»: hang on to, say goodbye to, think about…

Examples:

• «On the subway alwaysI hang from the barso as not to fall."
• «Next month I have to move. it's going to be difficultsay goodbye to my current house.
• "TodayI have thought about that kittenthat we saw in the park. How beautiful it was! Shall we adopt it?

It has been very interesting to learn this vocabularyverbs related to love, TRUE? 

Surely you knew some of them and others were familiar to you, but without really understanding how they were used.

We hope that now they are clearer to you. After this explanation of verbs with prepositions in Spanish, we move on to practicing them with exercises.

Activities to practice

We propose you 2 exercises on verbs with prepositions in Spanish related to love.

Activity 1

You must drag the verb more suitable for the space. Pay attention to the conjugations and the tense to get it right.

Activity 2

Now you must write the correct preposition for each verb.

How have your activities been? It sure is great!

The verb fall in love and the other 10 verbs with preposition seen in the article are just some examples. 

There are many more. Do you want to know the most important ones? 

In Hispania, Spanish school we have face-to-face Spanish courses and online in which we dedicate entire classes to learning verbs with prepositions.

Of the verbs worked on in the article, which ones do you like the most?

Do you prefer to say "I love you" or "I love you"?

Are there any verbs with prepositions that we have talked about that you find difficult to use?

Tell me all your questions and we'll talk! 😉.

Article written by Carlos Martinez for Hispania, Spanish school. 

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