I love you

[zaigucis]

latvian: es tevi mīlu

 

[Mendex]

In Lithuanian:
I love you - Aš (ash) tave myliu...

 

[Cosol]

In some Constructed languages...
Esperanto: Mi amas vin.
Interlingua: Io te ama.
Ido: Me amoras tu.
Volapük: Lelöfob oli [le.lø.'fob o'li]

 

[bb3ca201]

In Scottish Gaelic:

Tha gaol agam ort. (say: ha geul ak-um orsht)

(In the Bible, you also see 'Gradhaich mi thu')

(I hope my efforts to put the pronounciation down helps anyone trying to learn the phrase. If you follow it, you will have the basic phrase down pat.)

 

[Makumbera]

BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: eu te amo
EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE: eu amo-te
Spanish: Yo te amo
Italian: ti amo
French: je t'aime
Japanese: Aishiteru

 

[Andika]

In hungarian:
Szeretlek (seretlek)

 

[Nellora]

French: je t'aime

 

[helly_chan]

en chilense(chile): shaaaaaaa te kiero caleta!!jijij

 

[Tolovaj_Mataj]

Originally Posted by alby
Volim te - croatian

This is actually very sweet. In Czech this would mean "I vote for you" (in the political sense of the word).

Jana

So does in Slovene as well.

In Slovene: Ljubim te.

 

[meeryanah]

Since it's Valentine's day tomorrow I was wondering how do you say I love you in your mother language?
In mine, Croatian, it's: Volim te!
Thank you!

 

[Bienvenidos]

Persian:

Ma tura dost dârum.

Thread will be moved to OL soon.

 

[Crescent]

In Russian: Я тебя люблю.
En français: je t'aime.
En español: Te quiero (o: Te amo, querido foreros??)
In Ukrainian: Я тебе кохаю.

Happy Valentine's day to all!

 

[giogio75]

In Italian is TI AMO
In Norwegian JEG ELSKER DEG

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO ALL

 

[carmys]

in Romanian: Te iubesc
in German: Ich liebe dich
in Bulgarian: Obicham te
in Serbian: Volim te
in Greek: S'agapo
in Arabic - Ana bahebak (m)
Ana bahebek (f)

 

[smila]

in Urdu : Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai (L)

 

[gonza_arg]

In Spanish, could be "te quiero" or "te amo" depending on the context.
Gonza.

 

[User1001]

German: Ich liebe dich.
Dutch: Ik hou(d) van jou.
Afrikaans: Ek het jou lief.
Portuguese: Eu te amo.

 

[ghostmirror]

Chinese : 我爱你

 

[sentoni]

In Albanian it's "Të dua" (standard Albanian, Tosk dialect) in English it should be pronounced something like "Twuh dooah". In the Gheg dialect it's "t'du", english pronounciation: "t'doo".
Happy Valentine's Day!!

 

[Setwale_Charm]

Abkhaz - Sara (wara) bara bzia byzboit
Kurdish - Az te azdkm
Karachay - Men seni/sizni süeme
Assyrian: Ana talukh bybana - (to a man)
Ana talakh bybana - (to a woman)

Cebuano: naibog ko nimo, ginagugma tika
Ilongo: nagkagusto ko sa imo

Lithuanian - Aš tave myliu
Scottish Gaelic: tha gaol agam ort/ tha gaol agam oirbh
Welsh: rydw i'n dy garu di

 

[johnny trampas]

In Irish 'ta me i ngra leat.'​

 

[Setwale_Charm]

Some more:
Buryat - Bi shamay durlakha
Kara-Latyk: K`bytyk
Chuvash: Ep sana yoradal
Gagauz: Ben seni benerim
Kalmyk: Bi chi durta bolkh
Komi: Me radeyt tene
Mari: Myi tyimym ratam
Ossetic: Az daima uvarzon
Udmurt: yaratyskhke mon tone`
Kumyk: Men seni suyim
Mengrel: Ma si mny:ork
Lak: Na vin hira khun.
Koryak: Gymnan gycchi ylnu lynyk

These are often transliterations from the languages written in a different script, so please, do make allowances for that.

 

[yasemin]

Hi to all,
This has really been a long long list. However, note that many people write the same thing without controlling the previous threads.

Meanwhile, for Turkish I want to add a differentiation that I find necessary (as far as I saw, it's not written before) :
seni seviyorum : I love you (like 'ti voglio bene' in italian, which can be used for anyone that we love; family, friends, lover etc.)
sana aşığım : I love you (only for lovers. So, it is more appropriate for St. Valentine's day if we want to say 'I love you' in this context, although the first one is more common)

 

[Chazzwozzer]

Yeah, well, that's right. I'd translate "Sana aşığım." as "I'm in love with you." than "I love you."

 

[elpoderoso]

in Romanian: Te iubesc
in German: Ich liebe dich
in Bulgarian: Obicham te
in Serbian: Volim te
in Greek: S'agapo
in Arabic - Ana bahebak (m)
Ana bahebek (f)

Is the Romanian verb meaning ''to love'' borrowed from it's Slavic neighbours as it seems to have more in common with them than it's Romance cousins.

ROMANCE
te amo/ te quiero
ti amo
je t'aime YA TEBE LYUBLYU - Я тебе люблю
t'estimo
SLAVIC
YA TEBE LYUBLYU - Я тебе люблю
ljubim te
lubim ta
I'm (obviously) no linguist so please be gentle if I'm completely off the mark. Sorry about the accents. All these were taken from this thread so I'm assuming they are correct.
Adios E.P

 

[Enternal]

너를 사랑해 - Noh reul sa rang hae or just sarang hae

Korean ^^;

 

[Amerikanyets]

Since I'm studying Russian and Spanish in high school, I can provide some insight.

Te quiero (Literally, I want you.... it's a "playful" love)
Te amo (I love you)
Я люблю тебя (I love you) Ya lyublyu tebya
я люблю вас (Formal) Ya lyublyu vas
Ты мне нравишься (I like you) Ty mnyeh nravish'sa
Вы мне нравитесь (Formal) Vy (very hard to approximate this sound without hearing) mnyeh nravityes'.



Thanks!

 

[elpoderoso]

Thanks for your insight but I was already aware of what the terms meant (at least those of the Romance languages) I wanted to know about the Romanian term and if it was related to the Slavic terms.

 

[Cepkah]

Обичам те (bulgarian)
Seni seviyorum (turkish)
Seni beenerim (balkan turkish, gagauz)

 

[Setwale_Charm]

Mingrelian: ma si miork

 

[alisha_miss_world]

hi i would like you to know how to say i love you in hindi and urdu

it is: Main tumse pyar karta houn ( if you are saying that to a girl )
or Main tum ko chahta houn.....

 

[alisha_miss_world]

in mauritian language : mo content toi

 

[j'enris]

in malay language ( hope none have covered this)

Saya cintakan kamu ( as i love you to lovers not to the elders )

pronunciation is very easy

sa-yea(r) chin-ta(r)-ca(r)n ca(r)-moo

 

[Abbassupreme]

In colloquial Persian, there're fundamentally two ways of saying "I love you":
1. Duset dâram. However, this can ALSO mean "I like you." You could try "Man kheyli toh râ dust dâram," "I love you a lot," but that could also mean "I like you a lot."

2. 'Âsheqet hastam, or 'âsheqetam. This comes from the Arabic word 'eshq, and 'âsheq translates to "lover" or "one who's in love." Essentially, this literally means "I'm in love with you."

 

[JanWillem]

Twents dialect from Dutch: Ik maag oe geerne liej'n.
Which actually says 'It's nice to bear you(r presence)'

 

[Setwale_Charm]

Twents dialect from Dutch: Ik maag oe geerne liej'n.
Which actually says 'It's nice to bear you(r presence)'

That reminds me of the Danish: Jeg kan lide dig - I can suffer(bear) you, literally.
Now, what an unromantic lot you are guys!!

 

[JanWillem]

Haha yes we surely are
Like most of the east-Dutch dialects, ours is part of the Niedersachsian (Low Saxon) dialect group, which is located mostly in Germany and extends to at least the border between Germany and Denmark, and perhaps over it. That might explain the similarity.
Or perhaps we indeed just happen to be two very unromantic tribes

 

[Kerous LEE]

Chinese: 我愛你
Japanese: あなたを愛してる／あなたのこと好きです

 

[xbrinax]

in bulgarian-Обичам те!

 

[Khala]

I haven't heard Armenian that way (Yes kez sirumem.) It sounds right and it makes sense, but my family says "Sirum em kez." Is there a difference?


We have Esperanto, why not other conlangs?

Quenya: Melenyet. (I think.)

 

[the queen]

In albanian Te dua
In macedonian te sakam
Turkish seni seviyorum

 

[linguist786]

Gujarati:

હું તને પ્રેમ કરું છું
[huN tané prem karuN ChuN]

 

[Jana337]

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[Dr. Fumbles]

First I know it’s been said, but to clear things up, in Spanish, you use te amo ONLY IF YOU ARE ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED with someone. Te quiero is for everyone. In addition you can use Te adoro.
And for the dialects that use usted only or where usted is used between family members:
Le/Lo/La quiero/adoro/amo.
Voseo reverencial:
Os quiero (a vos not vosotros)
Voseo as used in the Americas uses te.

Galician:
ámote (ah-moh-tay)
ámoo/ámoa (with vostede the usted of Galician)

Asturian:
ámote (like Galician)

Old English:
Ic lufe þē./Ic þē lufe. (each loo-vay thay/each thay loo-vay) 1. the th is like thin not they. 2. the ē in þē is a long vowel to be held out longer. It translates to I love thee or I thee love. (kind of like I thee wed.)

I wanted to add more, but unfortunately, the smaller languages don’t have a lot of information on them, so here you go, hope you enjoy.

And an English to English translation would be, well to more “grammatically correct” English: I love you is I love thee.

There you have it some more ways to say I love you. Enjoy.

 

[inter1908]

In Czech this would mean "I vote for you" (in the political sense of the word).

And in Polish it (volim te, written wolę cię/ciebie) means "I prefer you".

Polish: Kocham cię

Never ommit the diactric signs when presenting something to the non natives.

 

[nooij]

In Dutch:

Ik hou van jou.

Or less commonly "Ik bemin jou". "Beminnen" is a more archaic (although still used) translation of "to love", deriving from the archaic noun "minne" (love), an archaic equivalent of "liefde".

 

[mataripis]

*De sorot ni Dumaget: E pebeot ko ey de kaw. *Tagalog: ang pag ibig ay ikaw.

 

[khashi]

In formal persian:
من عاشق تو هستم
man asheqe(asheghe) to hastam.
or
من تو را دوست دارم
man to ra dust daram.

usually we say it:
عاشقتم
asheqetam (asheghetam)
or
دوست دارم
duset daaram.

 

[Yanky]

Te amo   te-amo  Or Te quiero  te-kiero

It is in spanish

 

[Kailee]

Would like to add my part:

In slovenian language we have two ways of saying I love you that are generally used.

The first is reserved for the couple itself: Ljubim te. (same for both genders)
The second can be used in family, friend and love relations: Rad/a te imam. (Rad te imam. - if a boy says it to the girl / Rada te imam. - if a girl says it to the boy)

These two have the litteral translation of I love you.