"take to heart" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-take to heart.ogg [Australia] Forms: takes to heart [present, singular, third-person], taking to heart [participle, present], took to heart [past], taken to heart [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> to heart}} take to heart (third-person singular simple present takes to heart, present participle taking to heart, simple past took to heart, past participle taken to heart)
  1. (idiomatic) To take something seriously; to internalize or live according to something (e.g. advice.) Tags: idiomatic Translations (to take something seriously): die saak aantrek (Afrikaans), 想不開 (Chinese Mandarin), 想不开 (xiǎng bù kāi) (Chinese Mandarin), 往心裡去 (Chinese Mandarin), 往心里去 (wǎng xīnlǐ qù) (Chinese Mandarin), lægge på hjertet (Danish), ter harte nemen (Dutch), ottaa sydämelleen (Finnish), ottaa itseensä (Finnish), prendre à cœur (French), sich zu Herzen nehmen (German), prendersi a cuore (Italian), prendere a cuore (Italian), averci a cuore (Italian), avere a cuore (Italian), whakangākau (Maori), legge på hjertet (Norwegian Bokmål), brać sobie do serca [imperfective] (Polish), wziąć sobie do serca [perfective] (Polish), принима́ть бли́зко к сердцу (alt: что-либо) (Russian), isapuso (Tagalog), ciddiye almak (Turkish), брати до серця (braty do sercja) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-take_to_heart-en-verb-xXAd1mzU Disambiguation of 'to take something seriously': 99 1
  2. (idiomatic) To feel keenly; be greatly grieved at; be much affected by something. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to feel keenly): ottaa sydämelleen (Finnish), liikuttua (Finnish), prendre à cœur (French), mellre szív (Hungarian), prendersi a cuore (Italian), prendere a cuore (Italian), averci a cuore (Italian), avere a cuore (Italian), tomar a la tremenda (Spanish), tomar a pecho (Spanish), içerlemek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-take_to_heart-en-verb--Jis4XBA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English light verb constructions, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 23 77 Disambiguation of English light verb constructions: 18 82 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 21 79 Disambiguation of 'to feel keenly': 2 98

Inflected forms

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