How to Say "I Love You" in More Then 100 Different Languages
Bob Jacobsen
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)
Basc: Nere Maitea
Bavarian: I mog di narrisch gern
Bengali: Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
Berber: Lakh tirikh
Bicol: Namumutan ta ka
Bulgarian: Obicham te
Cambodian: kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah Bon sro lanh on
Cantonese: Ngo oi ney
Catalan: T'estim (mallorcan)
T'estime (valencian)
T'estimo (catalonian)
T'estim molt (I love you a lot)
Chinese: Wo ie ni (Manderin, Cantonese)
Croatian: Volim te (most common), or Ja te volim (less
common)
Czech: miluji te
Danish: Jeg elsker dig
Dutch: Ik hou van jou
Estonian: Mina armastan sind
Esperanto: Mi amas vin
Persian (Farsi): Tora dust midaram
Flemish: Ik zie oe geerne
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
German: Ich liebe Dich
I mog Di ganz arg! (Suebian: South German dialekt.)
Greek: S' ayapo
Gujarati
(a dialect of India) "Tane Prem Karoo Choo"
Hausa: Ina sonki
Hebrew: aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA (female to male)
aNEE oHEIV otAKH (male to female)
Ani ohev at (man to woman)
Ani ohevet atah (woman to man)
Hindi: Mein Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon
Hokkien: Wa ai lu
Hopi: Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian: Szeretlek te'ged
Icelandic: ?g elska ßig
Indonesian: Saya cinta padamu
Saya Cinta Kamu
Aku tjinta padamu
Saja kasih saudari
Italian: Ti amo
Irish: taim i' ngra leat
Japanese: Kimi o ai shiteru
Kazakh: Men seny jaksy kuremyn
Kiswahili: Nakupenda
Korean: Tangsinul sarang ha yo
Kurdish: Ez te hezdikhem
Latin : Te amo Vos amo
Lao : Khoi huk chau
Latvian : Es Tev milu
Lingala : Nalingi yo
Lithuanian: Ash miliu tave
Luo : Aheri
Madrid lingo: Me molas, tronca
Malay/Indonesian : Saya cintakan awak(awak=kamu=you)
Aku sayang engkau (engkau=kamu=you)
Malay: Saya cintamu
Saya sayangmu
Maltese: Inhobbok!
(Added by Christine )
Mandarin: Wo ai ni
Mohawk: Konoronhkwa
Navajo: Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele: Niyakutanda
Norwegian: Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal)
Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)
Pakistani: Muje se mu habbat hai
Persian: Tora dost daram
Pilipino: Mahal Kita
Iniibig Kita
Polish: Ja Cie Kocham or Kocham Cie (Pronounced Yacha
kocham)
Portuguese: Eu te amo
Romanian: Te iu besc
Russian : Ya lyublyu tebya
Ya vas lyublyu
Scot Gaelic: Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian: Volim te (most common), or
Ja te volim" (less common)
Shona: Ndinokuda
Sioux: Techihhila
Slovak: lubim ta
Slovene: ljubim te (??????)
Spanish: Te amo
Swahili: Nakupenda
Swedish: Jag a"lskar dig
Swiss-German: Ch'ha di ga"rn
Tagalog: Mahal kita
Taiwanese: Gwa ai lee
Tamil Naan Unnai Kadhalikiren
Thai: Phom Rak Khun
Ch'an Rak Khun
Tunisian: Ha eh bak
Turkish: Seni seviyorum!
Urdu: Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai
Vietnamese: Anh ye^u em (man to woman)
Em ye^u anh (woman to man)
Toi yeu em
Vlaams: Ik hou van jou
Welsh: 'Rwy'n dy garu di.
Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi)
Yiddish: Ikh hob dikh lib
Zazi: Ezhele hezdege (sp?)
Zuni: Tom ho' ichema
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