avoir un cœur d'artichaut
/a.vwaʁ œ̃ kœʁ daʁ.ti.ʃo/
le (masc.) la (fem.)
Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.
Forms
- present
- a un cœur d'artichaut
- past
- a eu un cœur d'artichaut
- perfect
- eu un cœur d'artichaut
Meaning
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to fall in love easily
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Elle a un cœur d'artichaut, elle tombe amoureuse chaque mois.
She falls in love easily, she falls for someone every month.
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Au lycée, il a eu un cœur d'artichaut et est tombé amoureux de presque toutes les filles de sa classe. Ses amis en riaient encore des années après.
In high school, he fell in love easily and had a crush on nearly every girl in his class. His friends still laughed about it years later.
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Similar words
Avoir un cœur d'artichaut is a colorful idiom meaning to fall in love very easily and often; tomber amoureux is the plain, literal verb for simply falling in love.
Practice
1 What does avoir un cœur d'artichaut mean?
to fall in love easily
2 Fill the gap: Elle a un cœur d'___, elle tombe amoureuse chaque mois.
Full sentence: Elle a un cœur d'artichaut, elle tombe amoureuse chaque mois. (She falls in love easily, she falls for someone every month.)
3 Which fingerprint chart matches avoir un cœur d'artichaut?
avoir un cœur d'artichaut: neutral register, common frequency, general domain, positive connotation.
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