Saturday, February 12, 2011

"I Love You" in Different Languages

Saying 'I Love You' is the best way to express your love, most especially if said with a heart. Read this list to know how to say I love you in different languages.  Just always remember: It doesn't matter how you say these three magical words, its how you show it:)


    Afrikaans Ek is lief vir jou
    Ek het jou lief
    Albanian Te dua
    Amharic Afekrishalehou
    Arabic Ana Behibak (to a male)
    Ana Behibek (to a female)
    Armenian kezi chat ge sirem (in western Armenian)
    yes kez sirum em (in eastern armenian)
    yes kez shat em siroom
    aruba
    bonaire and curacao
    mi stimabo
    Assyr
    Assyrian
    Az tha hijthmekem
    ANA KI BAYINAKH
    Australian 'ave a beer :-)  (Please keep in mind that this is only a joke! Yes, Australians speak English.)
    Azerbaijanian Men seni severam
    Basque (A region of Spain and France) Maite zaitut.
    Asko maite zaitut. (I love you a lot)      Nere Maitea (My love)
    Bavarian I mog di narrisch gern
    Bengali Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
    Berber Lakh tirikh
    BHOJPURI ham tahara se pyar karila
    Bicol Namumutan ta ka
    Bisaya Nahigugma ko nimo
    Bosnian volim te (most common)  (Volim Te Ba)
    ja te volim (less common)
    Brazilian Portuguese eu te amo
    Bulgarian Obicham te
    Cambodian kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah
    Bon sro lanh oon
    Cantonese Ngo oi ney
    Catalan T'estim (mallorcan)
    T'estime (valencian)
    T'estimo (catalonian)
    T'estim molt (I love you a lot)
    Cebuano Gi Gugma Kita
    chaldean
    a new form of aramaek
    Hey- Ben- nahh (to female)
    Hey-Ben-noohh (to male)
    Chamorro Hu Guiya Hao
    Chanchal main (i like you)
    main Tere bina main ji nahi pauga (i love you)
    mail tere bina kaha jauga
    Chinese Wo ie ni
    Manderin
    Wo ai ni
    Croatian Volim te (most common), or
    Ja te volim (less common)
    Czech miluji te
    Danish Jeg elsker dig
    Dhivehi (Maldivian Language) Aharen Kalaa Dhekeh Loabivey
    Dutch Ik hou van jou
    East Timor (Timorese) Hau hadomi (Hau=I hadomi=love o=you)
    English I love you!
    Esperanto Mi amas vin
    Estonian Ma armastan sind
    Mina armastan sind (formal)
    Persian (Farsi) Tora dust midaram
    Flemish (Vlaams) ik zie je graag   or   ik hou van je Ik heb je lief (in songs)
    Finnish Mina rakastan sinua
    French Je t'aime
    Friesian Ik bin fereale op dy
    Ik ha^ld fan dy (Most commonly used phrase) (the ^ is above the a)
    Gaelic Ta gra agam ort  (Tá mé i ngrá leat?)
    Galician Ámote
    Georgian Me shen mikvarkhar
    German Ich liebe dich
    i moag di  (an old saying for "i like you")
    I mog Di ganz arg! (Suebian: South German dialekt.)
    Greek S'agapo
    Hausa Ina sonki
    Hawaiian Aloha wau ia 'oe
    Hebrew aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA (female to male)
    aNEE oHEIV otAKH (male to female)
    female to male "ani ohevet otcha".
    male to female "ani ohev otach".
    Hindi Main tumse pyar karta hun (Male will say to Female) Mai Tumshe Pyaar Karta Hun
    Main tumse pyar karti hun (Female will say to Male)
    Hokkien Gwa ai di  (Wa ai lu?)
    Hopi Nu' umi unangwa'ta
    Hmong "Kuv Hlub Koj"
    Pronounced "Goo (rising tone) Hloo (high tone) Gah (falling tone"
    Hungarian Szeretlek te'ged
    Icelandic Ég elska þig (pronounced jeg elska thig)
    Indian languages:
    Assamese (Guwahati, India)
    moi tumak val pau
    Gujarati (a dialect of India)
    "Tane Prem Karoo Choo"
    Kannada
    Nanu nimmege preti maditi idini
    Naanu Ninna Preethisuve  (Naanu Ninanu Pritisutene)
    Maithili
    hom ahaan sei pyaar karey chhi
    Malayalam-1
    Malayalam-2
    Malayalam-3
    Malayalam (Kerala)
    ngyaan ninne premikkunnu (Enjan Ninnei Premikunnu)
    "Njan ninne pranikunnu" or "njan ninne premikkinu"
    "enikku ninne ishttamanu" (enneke nine ishtam)
    NJAN NINNE SNEHIKKUNNU (Njan ninne premikkunnu)
    nnan   ninney   snehikkunnu
    enikku ninne ishtamanu
    nan ninne premikkunnu, nan ninne snehikkunnu
    Manipuri
    aina nangbu nunshi
    Oriya
    Mu tumaku bhala paye
    Punjabi
    Main tenu pyar karda haan
    Meno Tere Na Pyar Wa
    Menu Twadey Naal Pyar Hai
    me tumse pyar ker ta hu'
    Sindhi
    Aue tava saa pyar kar ya ti ( female to male)
    Aue tosa pyaar kar ya to ( male to female
    Tamil
    NAN UNNAI KHADAL LIKERAN Naan Unnai Khadalikkeren
    Telugu
    1. "Nenu ninnu premisthunnaanu" (It represents the opposite person in SINGULAR).
    2. "Nenu mimmalni Premisthunnaanu" (It represents the opposite person in PLURAL).
    naanu ninnu premishthaanu (Nenu Ninnu Premisttu nanu)
    Nenu Ninnu Premisthunnanu  (nenne nenu premistunnanu)
    Marathi
    Mala tujhashi prem aahe. 
    Maza Tuzyavar Prem Ahe
    Majha tujhyavar prem aahe
    Indonesian Saya cinta padamu
    Saya Cinta Kamu
    Aku tjinta padamu
    saya mengasihi saudari (formal expression from male to female)
    saya mengasihi saudara (formal expression from female to male)
    Malay/Indonesian
    Saya cintakan awak(awak=kamu=you)
    Aku sayang engkau (engkau=kamu=you)
    Malay
    Saya cintamu
    Saya sayangmu  (
    Saya cintakan mu / Saya cinta mu ?)
    Niasan (one of tribes in Indonesia)
    omasido khou
    Javanese language
    (a tribe in Indonesia)
    kulo tresno panjenengan (high languange)
    aku tresno karo kowe (low languange)  (Aku tresna kowe!)
    in Java Indonesia: aku cinta kamu
    Irish taim i' ngra leat
    Italian Ti amo
    Ivatan Ichaddaw ko imo
    Japanese Kimi o ai shiteru  (Anata wa, dai suki desu ?)
    Javanese Kulo tresno marang panjenengan (formal)
    aku terno kowe (informal)
    Karen Ya Eh Na Arr Gyi Law.
    Kashmiri meh chi chain maai
    Kazakh Men seny jaksy kuremyn
    Kiswahili Nakupenda
    Konkani Hanv tukka preeti karta
    Korean Tangsinul sarang ha yo  (SA LANG HAE / Na No Sa Lan Hei?)
    Koryese Ten� eretemar
    Kurdish Ez te hezdikhem
    mn tom oxshawet or xoshm awet ???
         Hawrami Washem Grakani
    Kyrgyz Men seni syuem
    Lahu Nga naw hta ha ja.
    Lao Khoi huk chau
    Laos Chanrackkun
    Latin Te amo  (Ego te amo ?)
    Vos amo
    Amo te
    Latvian Es Tevi milu  (Es m lu Tevi ?)
    Lingala Nalingi yo
    Lithuanian að myliu tave  (As Myliu Tave)Aš tave myliu. [Ash tave myliu]
    Luganda (from Uganda) nkwagala
    Luo Aheri
    Macedonian Te sakam
    Madrid lingo Me molas, tronca
    Malaysian saya cinta awak   or   saya sayang awak
    Maldivian dhivehi - varah loabi vey
    Maltese Inħobbok (Inħobbok Ħafna: I love you very much!)
    Mandarian Wo ai ni
    Mapudungun(a language spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche) Inchepoyeneimi
    Mohawk Konoronhkwa
    Moldova (Moldovian) Te iubescCraciun fericit si un An Nou fericit! (Merry Christmas and a happy new year!)
    Mongolia Bi chamd khairtai
    Myanmar (Burma) Nga nint ko chit dae
    Nga nint go chit tel.
    Navajo Ayor anosh'ni
    Ndebele Ngiyakuthanda
    Nepali Ma timlai maya/prem garchu
    Norwegian Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal)
    Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)
    Pashto (National Language of Afghanistan) Za Tasara Meena Kawam
    Za tha sara meena laram  (Za la ta sara meena kawom)
    Persian Tora dost daram  (Tora Doost Darem ?)Duset daaram (informal language)
    Dustat daaram (more peotic)
    \'a\' here sounds like \'a\' in \'pat\' and \'aa\' sounds like \'u\' in \'umberlla\'. :))
    Pilipino Mahal Kita
    Iniibig Kita
    Polish Kocham cię
    Ja Cie Kocham (Pronounced Yacha kocham)
    Ja cię kocham (thats acurate spelling) is completly not in use.
    \"Ja\" is \"I\" and in this type of sentence we just skip it.
    Portuguese Eu amo-te (continental)
    Eu te amo (Brazilian)
    Punjabi Main tenu pyar karda haan
    Meno Tere Na Pyar Wa
    Menu Twadey Naal Pyar Hai
    me tumse pyar ker ta hu'
    Romanian Te iubesc
    Russian Ya lyublyu tebya
    Ya vas lyublyu
    Ya tebya liubliu
    Scot Gaelic Tha gra\dh agam ort
    Serbian Volim te (most common), or
    Ja te volim" (less common)
    Serbo-Croatian Volim te
    Shona Ndinokuda
    Sinhalese Mama Oyata Aadarei
    Sioux Techihhila
    Slovak lubim ta
    Slovenian (Slovene) Ljubim te
    Somalia Languages Waan kujeclahay
    Spanish Te quiero
    Te amo
    Swahili Naku penda
    Swedish Jag älskar dig (pronounces) jag aelskar dig
    Swiss-German Ch'ha di ga"rn
    Tagalog Mahal kita Iniibig kita
    Taiwanese Gwa ai lee
    Tamil NAN UNNAI KHADAL LIKERAN Naan Unnai Khadalikkeren
    Thai Phom Rak Khun
    Ch'an Rak Khun
    Khao Raak Thoe / chun raak ter
    Tibetan Nga Chola Gagai Yo. Nga Chola Tsewa Yo
    Tunisian NMOUT ALIK
    Ha eh bak (ÃÍÈß - spelled AHEBAK)
    Turkish Seni seviyorum!
    Ukranian Ya tebya kahayu
    Ya tebe kohayu (Y
    a tebe kohau)
    ya tebya lyublyu (Russian variant)
    Yalleh blutebeh
    Y
    a lublu tebe (ryss variant)
    Urdu (Pakistan) MUJHAY TUM SAY MOHABBAT HAY  or
    Main tum say pyar karta hoon.
    Mea tum se pyaar karta hu (when a guy says it)
    Mea tum se pyar karti hu (when a gal says it)
    Vietnamese Anh ye^u em (man to woman)
    Em ye^u anh (woman to man)
    Toi yeu em
    Vlaams (Flemish) ik zie je graag or ik hou van je
    Ik heb je lief (in songs)
    Welsh 'Rwy'n dy garu di.
    Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi)
    Rwy'n caru ti
    western Lombard mi te voeuri ben
    (Milan/Milano-Com/Como-Varez/Varese-Lodt/Lodi-Lech/Lecco-Pavia/Pavia-Nuara/Novara and in Switzerland Tesin/Ticino and Graubunden/Grizun-for a total population 12,000,000 and 80% mother tongues and bilingual with Italian)
    xhosa ndiyakuthanda
    Yiddish Ikh hob dikh lib
    Yoruba Mo ni ife re
    Zazi Ezhele hezdege (sp?)
    Zuni Tom ho' ichema
*Bicol       ->  Philippine dialect
*Ndebele     ->  Zimbabwe
*Vlaams      ->  Belgian Dutch
*Zazi        ->  Kurdic dialect
**Shona       ->  Zimbabwe
*Luo         ->  Kenya
*a"          ->  a with umlaut
*e^          ->  ^ above e
Sign Language: Spread hand out so no fingers are touching. Bring in middle & ring fingers and touch then to the palm of your hand.

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