陷入 - translation

[chinesekitten]

So somebody (let's call him a friend) just texted me this: 你会让他人陷入你. Because before that I told him that I'd like to work, but there's nothing I can do and he answered this. 

I would translate it as: "You can people make fall for you/get lost in you." or something like this - in a kinda romantic sense of way. But honestly it could mean anything, because I don't really know the proper usage of 陷入. 

So I wanted to know what people on here think about this and which meaning it's suppposed to have (please tell me it's nothing sexual hahah). 

Note: My friend is a non-chinese person too, so maybe he didn't even use 陷入 in the right way, I don't know. But his Chinese is better than mine, so I always think he uses vocab the right way.

 

Thanks to everybody who tries to help me! 

[Daniel Tsui44]

It doesn't make any sense to me. I think that he didn't use it properly here. I cannot figure out what he try to say.

[stapler]

I too don't understand. And as a rule I wouldn't use a laowai's Chinese a model for my own, or ever assume it was correct.

[889]

Maybe he mistyped xianru instead of xianmu. Trying to say something like, "You can make others admire you."

[chinesekitten]

@stapler @Daniel Tsui44

Yeah he might just have used the word in a wrong way, since he's not a native speaker either.

 

@889

Not sure about that, but could be a possibility too.

 

Thanks for all of you for helping me out!

[陳德聰]

If you know the person's first language, you can probably assume that it is a direct translation of something. I assume you don't share the same first language otherwise you could just ask him. Try replying "陷入？"

[chinesekitten]

@陳德聰 

His first language is Japanese and I just replied saying haha what are you saying, but we didn't talk about it any more than that, so it doesn't really matter. I was just curious, but thanks for helping me anyways

[陳德聰]

2 hours ago, chinesekitten said:

Japanese

 

Potentially makes more sense as a direct translation of Japanese then lol. First Chinese-Japanese dictionary I checked lists 陷入 as "(不利な状況に)陥る" and "(物思いに)沈む".

 

Google says 君に沈む (loosely 陷入你) is an, ahem, boys love comic. 君に陥る for some reason also returns the search items やがて君になる :/ which is a manga about girls falling in love.

 

Sooooooooooo my cross-linguistic non-analysis says he was trying to flirt with you.

[chinesekitten]

@陳德聰 

Oh wow that's so interesting tho. And also it seems like I wasn't that far away from his meaning to start with :'D

Your analysis still helps a lot, so thanks for putting so much effort into helping me with this trivial question haha. 

 

P.S.: The amount of languages you masterd is more than impressive. I hope I can learn Japanese and Korean too after mastering Chinese