13.2.11

Valentine's Day - "I Love You" in Different Languages

Valentine's Day Myspace Comments

"I Love You"
in Different Languages

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)

Armenian                             kezi chat ge sirem (in western Armenian)
                                           yes kez sirum em (in eastern armenian)
                                           yes kez shat em siroom

aruba
bonaire and curacao              mi stimabo

Assyrian                               Az tha hijthmekem
Australian                             'ave a beer :-)  (Please keep in mind that this is only a joke! Yes,  Australians speak English.)

Azerbaijanian                        Men seni severam

Basque
(A region of Spain and France)  Maite zaitut.
Bavarian                              I mog di narrisch gern

Bengali                                 Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi

Berber                                 Lakh tirikh

Bosnian                                volim te (most common)  (Volim Te Ba) - ja te volim (less common)

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) 
Cebuano                               Gi Gugma Kita

Chaldean
a new form of aramaek         Hey- Ben- nahh (to female) - Hey-Ben-noohh (to male)

Chamorro                             Hu Guiya Hao

Chanchal                              main (i like you) - main Tere bina main ji nahi pauga (i love you)
Chinese                                Wo ie ni

Manderin                              Wo ai ni

Croatian                               Volim te (most common), or Ja te volim (less common)

Czech                                   miluji te

Danish                                 Jeg elsker dig

Dhivehi
(Maldivian Language)            Aharen Kalaa Dhekeh Loabivey

Dutch                                   Ik hou van jou

East Timor (Timorese)           Hau hadomi (Hau=I hadomi=love o=you)

English                               I love you!

Esperanto                             Mi amas vin

Estonian                               Ma armastan sind - Mina armastan sind (formal)

Persian (Farsi)                      Tora dust midaram

Flemish (Vlaams)                  ik zie je graag   or   ik hou van je - Ik heb je lief (in songs)

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  (Tá mé i ngrá leat?)

Galician                                Ámote

Georgian                              Me shen mikvarkhar

German                                Ich liebe dich - i moag di  (an old saying for "i like you") - I mog Di ganz arg! (Suebian: South German dialekt.)

Greek                                  S'agapo

Hausa                                  Ina sonki

Hawaiian                              Aloha wau ia 'oe

Hebrew                                 aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA (female to male) - aNEE oHEIV otAKH (male to female)
female to male "ani ohevet otcha" - male to female "ani ohev otach".
Hindi                                    Main tumse pyar karta hun (Male will say to Female) Mai Tumshe Pyaar Karta   Hun Main tumse pyar karti hun (Female will say to Male)

Hokkien                               Gwa ai di  (Wa ai lu?)

Hopi                                     Nu' umi unangwa'ta

Hmong                                 "Kuv Hlub Koj" 

Hungarian                            Szeretlek te'ged

Icelandic                              Ég elska þig (pronounced jeg elska thig)

Indian languages:                  
Assamese (Guwahati, India)  moi tumak val pau

Gujarati
(a dialect of India)                 "Tane Prem Karoo Choo"

Kannada                               Nanu nimmege preti maditi idini 

Maithili                                 hom ahaan sei pyaar karey chhi

Manipuri                               aina nangbu nunshi

Oriya                                   Mu tumaku bhala paye

Punjabi                                 Main tenu pyar karda haan
Sindhi                                   Aue tava saa pyar kar ya ti ( female to male) - Aue tosa pyaar kar ya to ( male to female
Irish                                     taim i' ngra leat

Italian                                  Ti amo

Ivatan                                  Ichaddaw ko imo

Japanese                              Kimi o ai shiteru  (Anata wa, dai suki desu ?)

Javanese                              Kulo tresno marang panjenengan (formal) - aku terno kowe (informal)

Karen                                   Ya Eh Na Arr Gyi Law.

Kashmiri                               meh chi chain maai

Kazakh                                 Men seny jaksy kuremyn

Kiswahili                               Nakupenda

Konkani                                Hanv tukka preeti karta

Korean                                 Tangsinul sarang ha yo  (SA LANG HAE / Na No Sa Lan Hei?)

Koryese                               Ten� eretemar

Kyrgyz                                 Men seni syuem

Lahu                                    Nga naw hta ha ja.

Lao                                      Khoi huk chau

Laos                                    Chanrackkun

Latin                                    Te amo  (Ego te amo ?)


Latvian                                 Es Tevi milu  (Es m lu Tevi ?)

Lingala                                 Nalingi yo

Lithuanian                            að myliu tave  (As Myliu Tave) - Aš tave myliu. [Ash tave myliu]

Luganda (from Uganda)         nkwagala

Luo                                      Aheri

Macedonian                          Te sakam

Madrid lingo                          Me molas, tronca

Malaysian                             saya cinta awak   or   saya sayang awak

Maldivian                              dhivehi - varah loabi vey

Maltese                                Inħobbok (Inħobbok Ħafna: I love you very much!)

Mandarian                            Wo ai ni

Mapudungun
(a language spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche) Inchepoyeneimi

Mohawk                               Konoronhkwa

Moldova (Moldovian)             Te iubesc
Mongolia                              Bi chamd khairtai

Myanmar (Burma)                 Nga nint ko chit dae - Nga nint go chit tel.

Navajo                                 Ayor anosh'ni

Ndebele                               Ngiyakuthanda

Nepali                                  Ma timlai maya/prem garchu

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

Pashto
(National Language of Afghanistan)       Za Tasara Meena Kawam - Za tha sara meena laram  (Za la ta sara meena kawom)

Persian                                 Tora dost daram  - Duset daaram (informal language) - Dustat daaram (more peotic)


Pilipino                                 Mahal Kita - Iniibig Kita

Polish                                   Kocham cię


Portuguese                           Eu amo-te (Portugal) - Eu te amo (Brazil)

Punjabi                                 Main tenu pyar karda haan


Romanian                             Te iubesc

Russian                                Ya lyublyu tebya - Ya vas lyublyu - Ya tebya liubliu

Scot Gaelic                           Tha gra\dh agam ort

Serbian                                Volim te (most common), or Ja te volim" (less common)

Serbo-Croatian                      Volim te

Shona                                  Ndinokuda

Sinhalese                              Mama Oyata Aadarei

Sioux                                    Techihhila

Slovak                                  lubim ta

Slovenian (Slovene)               Ljubim te

Somalia Languages               Waan kujeclahay

Spanish                                Te quiero - Te amo

Swahili                                 Naku penda

Swedish                               Jag älskar dig (pronounces) jag aelskar dig

Swiss-German                      Ch'ha di ga"rn

Tagalog                                Mahal kita - Iniibig kita

Taiwanese                            Gwa ai lee

Tamil                                   NAN UNNAI KHADAL LIKERAN - Naan Unnai Khadalikkeren

Thai                                     Phom Rak Khun - Ch'an Rak Khun


Tibetan                                Nga Chola Gagai Yo. Nga Chola Tsewa Yo

Tunisian                               NMOUT ALIK - Ha eh bak (ÃÍÈß - spelled AHEBAK)

Turkish                               Seni seviyorum!

Ukranian                              Ya tebya kahayu


Vietnamese                          Anh ye^u em (man to woman) - Em ye^u anh (woman to man)


Welsh                                  'Rwy'n dy garu di.


Yiddish                                 Ikh hob dikh lib


Yoruba                                 Mo ni ife re


Zazi                                     Ezhele hezdege (sp?)


Zuni                                     Tom ho' ichema

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