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B1🧠 Personality

Italian word

passionale

passionate, intense, driven by strong feelings

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passionate

having or showing strong enthusiasm or sexual desire

⚠️ The trap

True cognate but 'passionale' in Italian strongly implies romantic or emotional intensity. 'Appassionato' is safer for 'passionate about a hobby'. A 'delitto passionale' is a crime of passion.

To say "having or showing strong enthusiasm or sexual desire" in Italian:

passionale (true cognate, but Italian leans toward romantic/intense)

"passionale" in English means:

passionate, intense, driven by strong feelings

Example

"È un uomo passionale che ama con tutto il cuore."

"He is a passionate man who loves with all his heart."

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