the dumbest part of the hub

I love you is a powerful phrase and saying I love you is a big step in any relationship. Learn the right words to use to say I love you and give yourself the best chance of hearing "I love you too!" The language of love is universal... sometimes it's just not universal enough! So what can you do when you need to say "I Love You" to that special someone, and plain 'ol English just won't do? Why, get a loveTranslation, that's what!

Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief

Albanian - Te dua

American Indian (North American Native)

• Apache - Sheth she~n zho~n (nazalized vowel sounds)
• Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse Chickasaw Chiholloli (first 'i' nasalized)
• Hopi - Nu' umi unangw'ta
• Mohawk - Konoronhkwa
• Navajo - Ayor anosh'ni
• Sioux - Techihhila
• Zuni - Tom ho' ichema

Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)

Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)

Armenian - Yes kez sirumen

Bambara - M'bi fe

Basque - Nere maitea

Bengali - Ami tomake bhalobashi (pronounced: Amee toe-ma-kee bhalo-bashee)

Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu

Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo

Bolivian Quechua Qanta munani

Bosnian Volim te

Brazilian (Portuguese) Eu te amo (pronounced "eiu chee amu")

Bulgarian Obicham te As te obeicham As te obicham

Burmese Chit pa te

Bulgarian - Obicham te

Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah

Canadian (French) Sh'teme (spoken)

............................Je t'aime (I like you)

............................Je t'adore (I love you)

Chinese ................Ngo oi ney (Cantonese)

............................Wo oi ney (Cantonese)

............................Wo ai ni (Mandarin)

............................Wo ie ni (Mandarin)

............................Wuo ai nee (Mandarin)

............................Wo ay ni (Mandarin)

Catalan - T'estimo

Cherokee - Tsi ge yu i (Thanks Nancy!)

Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse

Chichewa - Ndimakukonda

Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)

Creol - Mi aime jou

Croatian - Volim te

Czech - Miluji te

Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig

Dutch - Ik hou van jou

Elvish - Amin mela lle (from The Lord of The Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien)

English - I love you

Equador Quechua - Canda munani

Esperanto - Mi amas vin

Estonian - Ma armastan sind

Ethiopian ..............ewedishalew (Male to Female)

............................ewedihalew (Female to Male)

Faroese - Eg elski teg

Farsi - Doset daram

Filipino - Mahal kita /Iniibig kita

Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua

French - Je t'aime, Je t'adore

Frisian - Ik hâld fan dy

Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort

Georgian - Mikvarhar

German - Ich liebe dich

Greek - S'agapo

Greenlandic - Asavakit

Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo

Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw

Hawaiian - Aloha Au Ia`oe

Hebrew (Thanks Lilach)

Hebrew to male: "ani ohev otcha" (said by male) "Ohevet ot'cha" (said by female)

Hebrew to female: "ani ohev otach" (said by male) "ohevet Otach" (said by female)

Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw

Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae

Hmong - Kuv hlub koj

Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta

Hungarian - Szeretlek(Thanks Dóra!)

Icelandic - Eg elska tig

Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw

Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu

Inuit - Negligevapse

Irish - Taim i' ngra leat

Italian ...................Ti amo (relationship - lover or spouse)

............................Ti voglio bene (between friends)

............................Ti voglio (strong sexual meaning of desire)

Japanese.............. Kimi o ai shiteru

............................Aishiteru

............................Chuu shiteyo

............................Ore wa omae ga suki da

............................Watashi wa anata ga suki desu

............................Suki desu (used at the beginning of a relationship - no intimacy yet)

Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene

Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka

Kiswahili - Nakupenda

Konkani - Tu magel moga cho

Korean - Sarang Heyo

Latin - Te amo

Latvian - Es tevi miilu

Lebanese - Bahibak

Lithuanian - Tave myliu

Luxembourgeois - Ech hun dech gäer

Macedonian - Te Sakam

Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu

Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu

Maltese - Inhobbok

Mandarin Chinese - Wo ai ni

Marathi - Me tula prem karto

Mohawk - Kanbhik

Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik

Nahuatl - Ni mits neki

Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni

Norwegian - Jeg Elsker Deg

Pandacan - Syota na kita!!

Pangasinan - Inaru Taka

Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo

Persian - Doo-set daaram

Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay

Polish - Kocham Ciebie

Portuguese - Eu te amo

Romanian - Te iubesc

Russian - Ya tebya liubliu

Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort

Serbian - Volim te

Setswana - Ke a go rata

Sign Language - ,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing'I Love You')

Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan

Sioux - Techihhila

Slovak - Lu`bim ta

Slovenian - Ljubim te

Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo

Swahili - Ninapenda wewe

Swedish - Jag alskar dig

Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di

Surinam - Mi lobi joe

Tagalog - Mahal kita

Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li

Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe

Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen

Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu

Thai - Chan rak khun (to male)

Thai - Phom rak khun (to female)

Turkish - Seni Seviyorum

Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu

Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo

Vietnamese - Anh ye^u em (to female)

Vietnamese - Em ye^u anh (to male)

Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu di

Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh

Yoruba - Mo ni fe

Yugoslavian Ja te volim

Zulu .....................Mena tanda wena

...........................Ngiyakuthanda