How To Say "I Love You" In Different Languages!

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Just in time for Valentine's Day! Now you can say those romantic words we all long to hear as many ways as you like.



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Read on to learn more about the romance of languages, starting with the sweetest phrase of them all!





"I Love You" : A To F 

Here's A List For You, If You Need A Language Not On The List, Let Me Know!

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 oon

Cantonese: Ngo oi ney

Catalan: T'estim (mallorcan)
T'estime (valencian)
T'estimo (catalonian)
T'estim molt (I love you a lot)

Chinese: Wo ai 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
Ek heb je lief

Estonian: Mina armastan sind

Esperanto: Mi amas vin

Persian (Farsi): Tora dust midaram

Flemish: Ik zie oe geerne

Finnish: Minä 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)

Rod Stewart- Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? 

Rod Stewart's cover of the Van Morrisson classic. Gotta LOVE it! ~BadMsM

Rod Stewart-Have I told you lately

Live in Lisboa on june 1st 2008

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"I Love You": G To K 

Gaelic: Ta gra agam ort

German: Ich liebe Dich
I mog Di ganz arg! (Suebian: South German dialect)

Greek: S' agapo

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)

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 cinta kamu

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

"I Love You": L To P 

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!

Mandarin: Wo ai ni

Mohawk: Konoronhkwa

Navajo: Ayor anosh'ni

Ndebele: Niyakutanda

Norwegian: Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal)
Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)

Pakistani: Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai
Mein Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon

Persian: Tora dost daram

Philipino/Tagalog: Mahal Kita
Iniibig Kita

Polish: Ja Cie Kocham or Kocham Cie (Pronounced Yacha kocham)

Portuguese: Eu te amo

Chris De Burgh & Arian Band- The Words I Love You 

Chris De Burgh & Arian Band - The Words I Love You

Chris de Burgh, Arian - The Words I Love You

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"I Love You" Resources 

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"I Love You": R To Z 

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 älskar dig

Swiss-German: Ch'ha di gärn

Tagalog/Philipino: Mahal Kita
Iniibig Kita

Taiwanese: Gwa ai lee
Tamil Naan Unnai Kadhalikiren

Thai: Phom Rak Khun
Ch'an Rak Khun

Tunisian: Ha eh bak

Turkish: Seni seviyorum!

Twi (from Ghana) Me do wo (say "meh dough woh")

Urdu: Mein Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon
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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Ecolicious wrote...

I love this lens!!!!!! It is so simple, but so informative at the same time. I will feature and lensroll it. I would love it if there was a way you could add how to pronounce these different ways to say I love you. I can read some of these but I'm sure I butcher them when I say them out loud.

ReplyPosted July 04, 2009

mukunda22 wrote...

This is awesome!! A great ready reference for the next party!!

Thank you!!

ReplyPosted June 23, 2009

hlkljgk wrote...

this is very sweet.

ReplyPosted May 10, 2009

monarch13 wrote...

Wonderful sentiment! Congrats on your purple star! 5 stars and rolled to Symbols of Love.

ReplyPosted May 08, 2009

CoolFoto wrote...

Congrats on the Purple Star! Great that you included picture of sign language. :) 5*

ReplyPosted May 08, 2009

 
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