How to Say 'I Love You' in Any Language

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By Kaitlyn Nichols


 

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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Misha profile image

Misha  says:
2 years ago

I love that :)

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naresh.mandula  says:
2 years ago

wow  Really superb to be a how to say I love u how s possible they all lunguagges learing  i don t learn to this all launguagess .. Becuase thats to hard those are launguages learned  .. any way thanks for added  great job .. i don t know before  these are launguages ..  superb hub  i love

rajubrs  says:
2 years ago

nice

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