"I Love You" in Different Languages

Ek is lief vir jou

Afrikaans
Ek het jou lief
Albanian Te dua
Amharic Afekrishalehou

Ana Behibak (to a male)

Arabic
Ana Behibek (to a female)

kezi chat ge sirem (in western Armenian)

Armenian yes kez sirum em (in eastern armenian)
yes kez shat em siroom
aruba
mi stimabo
bonaire and curacao
Assyr Az tha hijthmekem
Assyrian ANA KI BAYINAKH

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

Azerbaijanian Men seni severam

Maite zaitut.
Basque Asko maite zaitut. (I love you a lot) Nere Maitea (My
(A region of Spain and France)
love)
Bavarian I mog di narrisch gern
Bengali Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
Berber Lakh tirikh
BHOJPURI ham tahara se pyar karila
Bicol Namumutan ta ka
Bisaya Nahigugma ko nimo
volim te (most common) (Volim Te Ba)
Bosnian
ja te volim (less common)
Brazilian Portuguese eu te amo
Bulgarian Obicham te
kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah
Cambodian
Bon sro lanh oon
Cantonese Ngo oi ney
T'estim (mallorcan)
Catalan
T'estime (valencian)
 T'estimo (catalonian)
T'estim molt (I love you a lot)
Cebuano Gi Gugma Kita
chaldean Hey- Ben- nahh (to female)
a new form of aramaek Hey-Ben-noohh (to male)
Chamorro Hu Guiya Hao
main (i like you)
Chanchal main Tere bina main ji nahi pauga (i love you)
mail tere bina kaha jauga
Chinese Wo ie ni
Manderin Wo ai ni

Volim te (most common), or

Croatian
Ja te volim (less common)
Czech miluji te
Danish Jeg elsker dig
Dhivehi Aharen Kalaa Dhekeh Loabivey
(Maldivian Language)

Dutch Ik hou van jou

East Timor (Timorese) Hau hadomi (Hau=I hadomi=love o=you)
English I love you!
Esperanto Mi amas vin
Ma armastan sind
Estonian
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
Ik bin fereale op dy
Friesian 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
Ich liebe dich
German 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
aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA (female to male)
aNEE oHEIV otAKH (male to female)
Hebrew
female to male "ani ohevet otcha".
male to female "ani ohev otach".
Main tumse pyar karta hun (Male will say to Female) Mai
Hindi 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
"Kuv Hlub Koj"
Hmong Pronounced "Goo (rising tone) Hloo (high tone) Gah
(falling tone"
Hungarian Szeretlek te'ged
Icelandic Ég elska þig (pronounced jeg elska thig)

Indian languages:

Assamese (Guwahati,
moi tumak val pau
India)
Gujarati
(a dialect of India) "Tane Prem Karoo Choo"

Kannada Nanu nimmege preti maditi idini

Naanu Ninna Preethisuve (Naanu Ninanu Pritisutene)
Maithili hom ahaan sei pyaar karey chhi

Malayalam-1 ngyaan ninne premikkunnu (Enjan Ninnei Premikunnu)

Malayalam-2 "Njan ninne pranikunnu" or "njan ninne premikkinu"
Malayalam-3 "enikku ninne ishttamanu" (enneke nine ishtam)
Malayalam (Kerala) NJAN NINNE SNEHIKKUNNU (Njan ninne premikkunnu)
nnan ninney snehikkunnu
enikku ninne ishtamanu
nan ninne premikkunnu, nan ninne snehikkunnu
Manipuri aina nangbu nunshi

Oriya Mu tumaku bhala paye

Main tenu pyar karda haan

Punjabi Meno Tere Na Pyar Wa
Menu Twadey Naal Pyar Hai
me tumse pyar ker ta hu'
Sindhi Aue tava saa pyar kar ya ti ( female to male)
Aue tosa pyaar kar ya to ( male to female

Tamil NAN UNNAI KHADAL LIKERAN

Naan Unnai Khadalikkeren
1. "Nenu ninnu premisthunnaanu" (It represents the
opposite person in SINGULAR).
2. "Nenu mimmalni Premisthunnaanu" (It represents the
Telugu opposite person in PLURAL).
naanu ninnu premishthaanu (Nenu Ninnu Premisttu
nanu)
Nenu Ninnu Premisthunnanu (nenne nenu premistunnanu)
Mala tujhashi prem aahe.
Marathi Maza Tuzyavar Prem Ahe
Majha tujhyavar prem aahe
Saya cinta padamu
Saya Cinta Kamu
Aku tjinta padamu
Indonesian saya mengasihi saudari (formal expression from male to
female)
saya mengasihi saudara (formal expression from female
to male)

Malay/Indonesian Saya cintakan awak(awak=kamu=you)

Aku sayang engkau (engkau=kamu=you)

Malay Saya cintamu

Saya sayangmu (Saya cintakan mu / Saya cinta mu ?)
Niasan
(one of tribes in Indonesia) omasido khou

kulo tresno panjenengan (high languange)

Javanese language aku tresno karo kowe (low languange) (Aku tresna
(a tribe in Indonesia) kowe!)
in Java Indonesia: aku cinta kamu
Irish taim i' ngra leat
Italian Ti amo
Ivatan Ichaddaw ko imo
Japanese Kimi o ai shiteru (Anata wa, dai suki desu ?)
Kulo tresno marang panjenengan (formal)
Javanese
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
Tangsinul sarang ha yo (SA LANG HAE / Na No Sa Lan
Korean
Hei?)
Koryese Ten� eretemar
Ez te hezdikhem
Kurdish
mn tom oxshawet or xoshm awet ???
Hawrami Washem Grakani
Kyrgyz Men seni syuem
Lahu Nga naw hta ha ja.
Lao Khoi huk chau
Laos Chanrackkun
Te amo (Ego te amo ?)
Latin Vos amo
Amo te
Latvian Es Tevi milu (Es m lu Tevi ?)
Lingala Nalingi yo
að myliu tave (As Myliu Tave)
Lithuanian
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
Inchepoyeneimi
by the Mapuche)

Mohawk Konoronhkwa
Te iubesc
Moldova (Moldovian) Craciun fericit si un An Nou fericit! (Merry Christmas and
a happy new year!)
Mongolia Bi chamd khairtai
Nga nint ko chit dae
Myanmar (Burma)
Nga nint go chit tel.
Navajo Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele Ngiyakuthanda
Nepali Ma timlai maya/prem garchu
Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal)
Norwegian
Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)
Pashto Za Tasara Meena Kawam
(National Language of
Afghanistan) Za tha sara meena laram (Za la ta sara meena kawom)

Tora dost daram (Tora Doost Darem ?)

Duset daaram (informal language)
Persian Dustat daaram (more peotic)
\'a\' here sounds like \'a\' in \'pat\' and \'aa\' sounds like \'u\' in
\'umberlla\'. :))

Mahal Kita
Pilipino
Iniibig Kita
Kocham cię
Ja Cie Kocham (Pronounced Yacha kocham)
Polish Ja cię kocham (thats acurate spelling) is completly not in
use.
\"Ja\" is \"I\" and in this type of sentence we just skip it.
Eu amo-te (continental)
Portuguese
Eu te amo (Brazilian)
Main tenu pyar karda haan
Meno Tere Na Pyar Wa
Punjabi
Menu Twadey Naal Pyar Hai
me tumse pyar ker ta hu'
Romanian Te iubesc
Ya lyublyu tebya
Russian Ya vas lyublyu
Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic Tha gra\dh agam ort
Volim te (most common), or
Serbian
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
 Te quiero
Spanish
Te amo
Swahili Naku penda
Swedish Jag älskar dig (pronounces) jag aelskar dig
Swiss-German Ch'ha di ga"rn
Mahal kita
Tagalog
Iniibig kita
Taiwanese Gwa ai lee
NAN UNNAI KHADAL LIKERAN
Tamil
Naan Unnai Khadalikkeren
Phom Rak Khun
Thai Ch'an Rak Khun
Khao Raak Thoe / chun raak ter
Tibetan Nga Chola Gagai Yo. Nga Chola Tsewa Yo
NMOUT ALIK
Tunisian
Ha eh bak (ÃÍÈß - spelled AHEBAK)
Turkish Seni seviyorum!
Ya tebya kahayu
Ya tebe kohayu (Ya tebe kohau)
Ukranian ya tebya lyublyu (Russian variant)
Yalleh blutebeh
Ya lublu tebe (ryss variant)

MUJHAY TUM SAY MOHABBAT HAY or

Main tum say pyar karta hoon.
Urdu (Pakistan)
Mea tum se pyaar karta hu (when a guy says it)
Mea tum se pyar karti hu (when a gal says it)
Anh ye^u em (man to woman)
Vietnamese Em ye^u anh (woman to man)
Toi yeu em
ik zie je graag or ik hou van je
Vlaams (Flemish)
Ik heb je lief (in songs)
'Rwy'n dy garu di.
Welsh Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi)
Rwy'n caru ti
mi te voeuri ben
(Milan/Milano-Com/Como-Varez/Varese-Lodt/Lodi-Lech/Lecco-Pavia/Pavia-
western Lombard Nuara/Novara and in Switzerland Tesin/Ticino and Graubunden/Grizun-for a
total population 12,000,000 and 80% mother tongues and bilingual with
Italian)

xhosa ndiyakuthanda
 Yiddish Ikh hob dikh lib
Yoruba Mo ni ife re
Zazi Ezhele hezdege (sp?)
Zuni Tom ho' ichema
*Bicol -> Philipin dialect
*Ndebele -> Zimbabwe
*Vlaams -> Belgian Dutch
*Zazi -> Kurdic dialect
*
*Shona -> Zimbabwe
*Luo -> Kenya
*a" -> a with umlaut
*e^ -> ^ above e
Spread hand out so no fingers are touching. Bring in middle & ring fingers
Sign Language:
and touch then to the palm of your hand.

It doesn't matter how you say, just how you show it(: (Megan)

P.S.: I receive so many messages from people all over the world. Those messages (the
contributions) are all appreciated. Unfortunately, I simply don't have enough time to
respond them. I hope this would be understood. Thanks. Sadi