enjoy oneself

English

Verb

enjoy oneself (third-person singular simple present enjoys oneself, present participle enjoying oneself, simple past and past participle enjoyed oneself)

1. To take pleasure in something; to have feelings of enjoyment.

   Synonym: have a good time

   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:

     They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

Translations

take pleasure

• Catalan: divertir-se (ca), entretenir-se (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玩得開心／玩得开心 (wán de kāixīn)

• Esperanto: amuziĝi
• Finnish: viihtyä (fi), pitää hauskaa (fi)
• French: s’amuser (fr), s’égayer (fr), prendre du bon temps (fr)
• Galician: pagarse (gl)
• German: Spaß haben
• Greek: διασκεδάζω (el) (diaskedázo)

  Ancient: ἥδομαι (hḗdomai)

• Hungarian: jól érzi magát, jól szórakozik
• Italian: divertirsi (it)
• Japanese: 楽しむ (ja) (たのしむ, tanoshimu)
• Latin: oblecto
• Portuguese: divertir-se
• Russian: наслажда́ться (ru) (naslaždátʹsja), весели́ться (ru) (veselítʹsja), развлека́ться (ru) (razvlekátʹsja)
• Spanish: divertirse (es), pasarlo bien, gustarse
• Swedish: roa (sv) sig
• Ukrainian: весели́тися impf (veselýtysja), розважа́тися impf (rozvažátysja)

See also

• time of one's life