Dictionary formamo, amare, amavi, amatum
Translation
to love; to like
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Examples
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He loves God with his whole heart.
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We want to love and to be loved.
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The mother loved her son.
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A man who loves his homeland does not fear death.
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If you love me, keep my words.
Amo, amare, amavi, amatum, first conjugation, and the paradigm verb of that conjugation for the excellent reason that it never does anything surprising. It takes a plain accusative of whoever or whatever is loved.
The useful distinction is with diligo. Amare is the warm word, covering affection and desire alike; diligere is cooler and more deliberate, love as a considered choice, and the Vulgate switches between them in ways that theologians have argued over for centuries. The present participle amans works as a noun meaning "lover", and amabo te, literally "I shall love you", is Latin for "please". English took amateur, amiable, amorous and enamoured, and the imperative ama went straight into Spanish and Italian without stopping.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 1: amo, -que, ordo and 11 more words.