Wednesday, July 20, 2011

How to Say 'I Love You' in Any Language

 



It's been said that there are a million ways to say "I love you." The following is a list of a little less than a million ways, but enough that if you ever find yourself in Reykjavík and meet the man or woman of your dreams, you'll know exactly what to say.



Afrikaans: Ek is lief vir jou
Albanian: Te dua
Alsacien: Ich hoan dich gear
Amharic: Afekrishalehou
Apache: Sheth shen zhon
Arabic: Ana behibek (to a female)
Ana behibak (to a male)
Armenian: Yes kez si'rumem
Assamese: Moi tomak bhai pau
Bambara: M'bi fe
Bangladeschi: Ami tomake valobashi
Basc: Nere maitea
Basque: Maite zaitut
Bavarian: I mog di narrisch gern
Bengali: Ami tomay bhalo bashi
Belarusian: Ya tabe kahayu
Berber: Lakh tirikh
Bicol: Namumutan ta ka
Bisaya: Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bolivian Quechua: Qanta munani
Bosnian: Volim te
Bulgarian: Obicham te
Burmese: Chit pa de
Cambodian: Bgon serlow lang own (to female)
Own serlow lang bong (to male)
Cantonese: Ngo oi ney
Catalan: T'estimo
Cebuano: Gihigugma ko ikaw
Chamoru: Hu guaiya hao
Cherokee: Tsi ge yu i
Cheyenne: Ne mohotatse
Chichewa: Ndimakukonda
Chickasaw: Chiholloli
Chinese: Wo ie ni (Manderin, Cantonese)
Corsican: Ti tengu cara (to female)
Ti tengu caru (to male)
Creole: Mi aime jou
Croatian: Volim te
Czech: Miluji te
Danish: Jeg elsker dig
Dholuo: Aheri
Dutch: Ik hou van jou
Ecuador Quechua: Canda munani
Elvish: Amin mela lle
English: I love you
Eskimo: Nagligivaget
Esperanto: Mi amas vin
Estonian: Mina armastan sind
Ethiopian: ewedishalew (to female)
ewedihalew (to male)
Farsi: Tora dust midaram
Filipino: Mahal kita
Finnish: Mina" rakastan sinua
Flemish: Ik zie oe geerne
French: Je t'aime
Friesian: Ik hald fan dei
Gaelic: Ta gra agam ort
Georgian: Mikvarhar
German: Ich liebe dich
Greek: S' agapo
Greenlandic: Asavakit
Gujarati: Hoon tane pyar karoo chhoon
Haitian Creole: Mwen renmen'w
Hausa: Ina sonki
Hawaiian: Aloha au ia'oe
Hebrew: Ani ohev otach (to female)
Ani ohevet otcha (to male)
Hindi: Mein tumse pyar karta hoon (to female)
Mein tumse pyar karti hoon (to male)
Hmong: Kuv hlub koj
Hokkien: Wa ai lu
Hopi: Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian: Szeretlek
Icelandic: Eg elska thig
Indonesian: Saya cinta padamu
Irish: Taim i' ngra leat
Italian: Ti amo
Japanese: Kimi o ai shiteru
Javanese: Kulo tresno
Kannada: Naanu ninnanu preethisunthene
Kapampangan: Kalugran daka
Kazakh: Men seny jaksy kuremyn
Kiswahili: Nakupenda
Klingon: Qabang
Korean: Tangsinul sarang ha yo
Kurdish: Ez te hezdikhem
Latin: Te amo
Lao: Khoi huk chau
Latvian: Es tev milu
Lebanese: Bahibak
Lingala: Nalingi yo
Lisbon Lingo: Gramo-te bue', Chavalinha
Lithuanian: Ash miliu tave
Lojban: Mi do prami
Luo: Aheri
Macedonian: Sakam te
Malay: Saya cintamu
Malay/Indonesian: Aku sayang enkow
Malayalam: Njyaan ninne' preetikyunnu
Malaysian: Saya cintamu
Maltese: Inhobbok
Mandarin: Wo ai ni
Marathi: Me tujhashi prem karto (to female)
Me tujhashi prem karte (to male)
Marhsallese: Yokwe yuk
Mohawk: Konoronhkwa
Navajo: Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele: Niyakutanda
Nepali: Ma timilai maya garchu
Norwegian: Jeg elsker deg
Osetian: Aez dae warzyn
Pakistani: Muje se mu habbat hai
Persian: Tora dost daram
Pig Latin: Iyay ovlay ooyay
Pilipino: Mahal kita
Polish: Kocham cie
Portuguese: Eu te amo
Punjabi: Mai taunu pyar karda
Romanian: Te iu besc
Russian: Ya tyebya lyublyu
Sanskrit: Twayi snihyaami
Scot Gaelic: Tha gra dh agam ort
Serbian: Volim te
Serbo-Croatian: Volim te
Sesotho: Kiyahurata
Shona: Ndinokuda
Sign Language: I - point at self with index finger; love - hold crossed hands over chest; you - point to other person with index finger
Sinhalese: Mama oyata adarei
Sioux: Techihhila
Slovak: Lubim ta
Slovenian: Ljubim te
Spanish: Te amo
Sri Lankan: Mama oyata arderyi
Swahili: Naku penda
Swedish: Jag a"lskar dig
Swiss-German: Ch'ha di ga"rn
Syrian/Lebanese: Bhebbek (to female)
Bhebbak (to male)
Tagalog: Mahal kita
Taiwanese: Gwa ai lee
Tahitian: Ua here vau ia oe
Tamil: Naan unnai kadhalikiren
Tcheque: Miluji Te'
Telugu: Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai: Phom rak khun (to female)
Ch'an rak khun (to male)
Tswana: Ke a go rata
Tunisian: Ha eh bak
Turkish: Seni seviyorum
Ukrainian: Ya tebe kokhayu
Urdu: Main tumse muhabbar karta hoon
Venda: Ndi a ni funa
Vietnamese: Anh ye'u em (to female)
Em ye'u anh (to male)
Vlaams: Ik hue van ye
Vulcan: Wani ra yana ro aisha
Welsh: Rwy'n dy garu di.
Yiddish: kh'hob dikh lib
Yugoslavian: Ya te volim
Zulu: Ngiyakuthanda
Zuni: Tom ho'ichema

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