How to Say "I love you"
•To say "I love you!" in Myanmar, we say:
" chit-tey "
•It would be written as:
cspfw,f/
I Love You" in Many Languages
In hundreds of other different
languages, they say as follows:
• Afrikaans: Ek het jou liefe
• Afrikaans: Ek is lief vir jou
• Albanian: te dua
• Albanian: te dashuroj
• Alentejano(Portugal): Gosto De Ti,
Porra!
• Alsacien: Ich hoan dich gear
• Amharic: Afekrishalehou
• Arabic: Ana Behibak (to a male)
• Arabic: Ana Behibek (to a female)
• Arabic: Ib'n hebbak.
• Arabic: Ana Ba-heb-bak
• Arabic: nhebuk
• Arabic: Ohiboke (male to female)
• Arabic: Ohiboka (female to male)
• Arabic: Ohibokoma (male or female
to two males or two females)
• Arabic: Nohiboke (more than one
male or female to female)
• Arabic: Nohiboka (male to male or
female to male)
• Arabic: Nohibokoma (m. to m. or f.
to two males or two females)
• Arabic: Nohibokom (m. to m. or f.
to more than two males)
• Arabic: Nohibokon (m. to m. or f.
to more than two females)
• Arabic (not standard): Bahibak
(female to male)
• Arabic (not standard): Bahibik
(male to female)
• Arabic (not standard): Benhibak
(more than one male or female to
male)
• Arabic (not standard): Benhibik
(male to male or female to female)
• Arabic (not standard): Benhibkom
(m. to m. or female to more than one
male)
• Assamese: Moi tomak bhal pau
• Basc: Nere Maitea
• Batak: Holong rohangku di ho
• Bavarian: I mog di narrisch gern
• Bengali: Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
• Bengali: Ami tomake bhalobashi.
• Berber: Lakh tirikh
• Bicol: Namumutan ta ka
• Bolivian Quechua: qanta munani
• Bulgarian: Obicham te
• Burmese: chit pa de
• Cambodian: Bon sro lanh oon
• Cambodian: kh_nhaum soro_lahn
nhee_ah
• Canadian French: Sh'teme (spoken,
sounds like this)
• Cantonese: Moi oiy neya
• Cantonese: Ngo oi ney
• Catalan: T'estim (mallorcan)
• Catalan: T'estim molt (I love you
a lot)
• Catalan: T'estime (valencian)
• Catalan: T'estimo (catalonian)
• Cebuano: Gihigugma ko ikaw.
• Chickasaw: chiholloli (first "i"
nasalized)
• Chinese: (see the entries for
mandarin or cantonese !)
• Corsican: Ti tengu cara (to
female)
• Corsican: Ti tengu caru (to male)
• Croatian: LJUBim te
• Czech: miluji te
• Czech: MILUJU TE! (colloquial
form)
• Danish: Jeg elsker dig
• Dutch: Ik hou van jou
• Dutch: Ik ben verliefd op je
• Ecuador Quechua: canda munani
• English: I love you
• English: I adore you
• Esperanto: Mi amas vin
• Estonian: Mina armastan sind
• Estonian: Ma armastan sind
• Farsi: Tora dust midaram
• Farsi: Asheghetam
• Farsi (Persian): doostat dAram
• Filipino: Mahal ka ta
• Filipino: Iniibig Kita
• Finnish: Mina" rakastan sinua
• Flemish: Ik zie oe geerne
• French: Je t'aime
• French: Je t'adore
• Friesian: Ik hald fan dei
• Gaelic: Ta gra agam ort
• German: Ich liebe Dich
• Greek: s'ayapo (spoken s'agapo,
3rd letter is lower case 'gamma')
• Greek (old): (Ego) philo su (ego
is only needed for emphasis)
• Greenlandic: Asavakit
• Gujrati: Hoon tane pyar
karoochhoon.
• Hausa: Ina sonki
• Hawaiian: Aloha I'a Au Oe
• Hebrew: Ani ohev otach (male to
female)
• Hebrew: Ani ohev otcha (male to
male)
• Hebrew: Ani ohevet otach (female
to female)
• Hebrew: Ani ohevet otcha (female
to male)
• Hindi: Mai tumase pyar karata hun
(male to female)
• Hindi: Mai tumase pyar karati hun
(female to male)
• Hindi: Main Tumse Prem Karta Hoon
• Hindi: Mai Tumhe Pyar Karta Hoon
• Hindi: Main Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon
• Hindi: Mai Tumse Peyar Karta Hnu
• Hindi: Mai tumse pyar karta hoo
• Hokkien: Wa ai lu
• Hopi: Nu' umi unangwa'ta
• Hungarian: Szeretlek
• Hungarian: Szeretlek te'ged
• celandic: Eg elska thig
• Indi: Mai Tujhe Pyaar Kartha Ho
• Indonesian: Saya cinta padamu (Saya,
commonly used)
• Indonesian: Saya cinta kamu ( " )
• Indonesian: Saya kasih saudari ( "
)
• Indonesian: Aku tjinta padamu (Aku,
not often used)
• Indonesian: Aku cinta padamu ( " )
• Indonesian: Aku cinta kamu ( " )
• Iranian: Mahn doostaht doh-rahm
• Irish: taim i' ngra leat
• Italian: ti amo (if it's a
relationship/lover/spouse)
• Italian: ti voglio bene (if it's a
friend, or relative)
• Japanese: Kimi o ai shiteru
• Japanese: Aishiteru
• Japanese: Chuu shiteyo
• Japanese: Ora omee no koto ga suki
da
• Japanese: Ore wa omae ga suki da
• Japanese: Suitonnen
• Japanese: Sukiyanen
• Japanese: Sukiyo
• Japanese: Watashi Wa Anata Ga Suki
Desu
• Japanese: Watashi Wa Anata Wo
Aishithe Imasu
• Japanese: Watakushi-wa anata-wo ai
shimasu
• Japanese: Suki desu (used at 1st
time, like for a start, when you are
not yet real lovers)
• Javanese: Kulo tresno
• Kannada: Naanu Ninnanu
Preethisuthene
• Kannada: Naanu Ninnanu Mohisuthene
• Kiswahili: Nakupenda
• Klingon: bangwI' SoH
• Klingon: qamuSHa'
• Klingon: qaparHa'
• Korean: No-rul sarang hae (man to
woman in casual relation)
• Korean: Tangsinul sarang ha yo
• Korean: Tangshin-ul sarang hae-yo
• Korean: Tangsinul Sarang Ha Yo
• Korean: Tangshin-i cho-a-yo (i
like you, in a romantic way)
• Korean: Nanun tangshinul sarang
hamnida
•
Korean: Nanun Dangsineul Mucheog
Joahapnida
• Korean: Nanun Dangsineul
Saranghapnida
• Korean: Nanun Gdaega Joa
• Korean: Nanun Gdaereul
Saranghapnida
• Korean: Nanun Neoreul Saranghanda
• Korean: Gdaereul Hjanghan Naemaeum
Alji
• Korean: Joahaeyo
• Korean: Saranghae
• Korean: Saranghaeyo
• Korean: Saranghapanida
• Kurdish: Ez te hezdikhem (?)
• Lao: Koi muk jao
• Lao: Khoi huk chau
• Latin: Te amo
• Latin: Vos amo
• Latin (old): (Ego) amo te (ego,
for emphasis)
• Latvian: Es milu tevi (Pronounced
"Ess tevy meeloo" )
• Lebanese: Bahibak
• Lingala: Nalingi yo
• Lisbon lingo: gramo-te bue',
chavalinha
• Lithuanian: TAVE MYLIU (ta-ve
mee-lyu)
• Lojban: mi do prami
• Luo: Aheri
• Macedonian: SAKAM TE!
• Madrid lingo: Me molas, tronca
• Malay: Saya cintakan mu
• Malay: Saya sayangkan mu
• Malay/Indonesian: Saya sayangkan
engkau
• Malay/Indonesian: Saya cintakan
awak
• Malayalam: Njyaan Ninne'
Preetikyunnu
• Malayalam: Njyaan Ninne'
Mohikyunnu.
• Malayalam: Ngan Ninne Snaehikkunnu
• Malaysian: Saya Cintamu
• Malaysian: Saya Sayangmu
• Malaysian: Saya Cinta Kamu
• Mandarin: Wo ai ni (Wo3 ai4 ni3 in
tonal notation)
• Marathi: me tujhashi prem karto
(male to female)
• Marathi: me tujhashi prem karte
(female to male)
• Marathi: Mi tuzya var prem karato
• Mohawk: Konoronhkwa
• Navaho: Ayor anosh'ni
• Ndebele: Niyakutanda
• Norwegian: Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)
• Norwegian: Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal)
(pronouncedyai el ske dai)
• Op: Op Lopveop Yopuop
• Osetian: Aez dae warzyn
• Pakistani: Mujhe Tumse Muhabbat
Hai
• Persian: Tora dost daram
• Pig Latin: Ie Ovele Ouye
• Polish: Kocham Cie
• Polish: Ja cie kocham
• Polish: Yacha kocham
• Polish: Kocham Ciebie
• Portuguese: Amo-te
• Portuguese (brazilian): Eu te amo
• Punjabi: Mai taunu pyar karda
• Punjabi: Main Tainu Pyar Karna
• Quenya: Tye-mela'ne
• Romanian: Te iu besc
• Romanian: Te Ador
• Russian: Ya vas liubliu
• Russian: Ya tebya liubliu
• Russian: Ya polubeel s'tebya
• Russian (malincaya): Ya Tibieh
Lublue
• Sanskrit: tvayi snihyaami
• Scot Gaelic: Tha gra\dh agam ort
• Serbian: ljubim te (I kiss
you/love you, 'lj' pro nounced like
'll' in Spanish, one sound, 'ly'ish)
• Serbocroatian: Volim te
• Serbocroatian: Ljubim te
• Shona: Ndinokuda
• Sinhalese: Mama oyata adarei
• Sioux: Techihhila
• Slovak: lubim ta
• Slovene: ljubim te
• Spanish: Te quiero
• Spanish: Te amo
• Srilankan: Mama Oyata Arderyi
• Swahili: Naku penda (followed by
the person's name)
• Swedish: Jag a"lskar dig
• Swiss-German: Ch'ha di ga"rn
• Syrian/Lebanese: BHEBBEK (to a
female)
• Syrian/Lebanese: BHEBBAK (to a
male)
• Tagalog: Mahal kita
• Tahitian: Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
• Tamil: Ni yaanai kaadli karen (You
love me)
• Tamil: n^An unnaik kAthalikkinREn
(I love you)
• Tamil: Naan Unnai Kadalikiren
• Tcheque: MILUJI TE^
• Telugu: Neenu ninnu
pra'mistu'nnanu
• Telugu/india: Nenu Ninnu
Premistunnanu
• Thai: Phom Rak Khun (formal, male
to female)
• Thai: Ch'an Rak Khun (formal,
female to male)
• Thai: Khao Raak Thoe
(affectionate, sweet, loving)
• Thai: Phom Rak Khun
• Tunisian: Ha eh bak *
• Turkish: Seni seviyo*rum (o* means
o)
• Turkish: Seni Seviyurum
• Turkish: Seni Seviyorum
• Ukrainian: ja tebe koKHAju (real
true love)
• Ukrainian: ja vas koKHAju
• Ukrainian: ja pokoKHAv tebe
• Ukrainian: ja pokoKHAv vas
• Urdu: Mujhe tumse mohabbat hai
• Urdu: Main Tumse Muhabbat Karta
Hoon
• Vietnamese: Em ye^u anh (woman to
man)
• Vietnamese: Toi yeu em
• Vietnamese: Anh ye^u em (man to
woman)
• Vlaams: Ik hue van ye
• Vulcan: Wani ra yana ro aisha
• Volapük : Löfob oli
• Welsh: 'Rwy'n dy garu di.
• Welsh: Yr wyf i yn dy garu di.
• Welsh: Yr wyf i yn eich caru chwi.
• Yiddish: Ich libe dich
• Yiddish: Ich han dich lib
• Yiddish: Ikh Hob Dikh Lib
• Yugoslavian: Ya te volim
• Zazi: Ezhele hezdege (sp?)
• Zulu: Mena Tanda Wena
• Zulu: Ngiyakuthanda!
• Zuni: Tom ho' ichema
Note:
• a" -> a with umlaut
• e^ -> ^ above e
• a' -> a with the acute accent (')
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