How do you say "I love you" in your mother tongue?

@dipima (172)
India
February 23, 2007 3:43am CST
Love has its own language in many. In my language, it's "moi tumak bhal pau"...
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@mssnow (9484)
• United States
23 Feb 07
I found a whole list of languages to say I love you: By the way my native language is English. 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) Basc : Nere Maitea Bavarian : I mog di narrisch gern Bengali : Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi Berber : Lakh tirikh Bicol : Namumutan ta ka 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) T'estim molt (I love you a lot) Chinese : Wo ie ni (Manderin, Cantonese) Croatian : Volim te (most common), or Ja te volim (less common) Czech : miluji te Danish : Jeg elsker dig Dutch : Ik hou van jou Estonian : Mina armastan sind Esperanto : Mi amas vin Persian (Farsi) : Tora dust midaram Flemish : Ik zie oe geerne 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 German : Ich liebe Dich I mog Di ganz arg! (Suebian: South German dialekt.) Greek : S' ayapo Gujarati (a dialect of India) "Tane Prem Karoo Choo" Hausa : Ina sonki Hebrew : aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA (female to male) aNEE oHEIV otAKH (male to female) Ani ohev at (man to woman) Ani ohevet atah (woman to man) Hindi: Mein Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon Hokkien : Wa ai lu Hopi : Nu' umi unangwa'ta Hungarian : Szeretlek te'ged Icelandic : ?g elska ßig Indonesian : Saya cinta padamu Saya Cinta Kamu Aku tjinta padamu Saja kasih saudari Italian : Ti amo Irish : taim i' ngra leat Japanese : Kimi o ai shiteru Kazakh : Men seny jaksy kuremyn Kiswahili : Nakupenda Korean : Tangsinul sarang ha yo Kurdish : Ez te hezdikhem Latin : Te amo Vos amo Lao : Khoi huk chau Latvian : Es Tev milu Lingala : Nalingi yo Lithuanian: Ash miliu tave Luo : Aheri Madrid lingo : Me molas, tronca Malay/Indonesian : Saya cintakan awak(awak=kamu=you) Aku sayang engkau (engkau=kamu=you) Malay : Saya cintamu Saya sayangmu Maltese: Inhobbok! (Added by Christine ) Mandarin : Wo ai ni Mohawk : Konoronhkwa Navajo : Ayor anosh'ni Ndebele : Niyakutanda Norwegian : Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal) Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk) Pakistani : Muje se mu habbat hai Persian : Tora dost daram Pilipino : Mahal Kita Iniibig Kita Polish : Ja Cie Kocham or Kocham Cie (Pronounced Yacha kocham) Portuguese : Eu te amo Romanian : Te iu besc Russian : Ya lyublyu tebya Ya vas lyublyu Scot Gaelic : Tha gra\dh agam ort Serbian : Volim te (most common), or Ja te volim" (less common) Shona : Ndinokuda Sioux : Techihhila Slovak : lubim ta Slovene : ljubim te (??????) Spanish : Te amo Swahili : Nakupenda Swedish : Jag a"lskar dig Swiss-German : Ch'ha di ga"rn Tagalog : Mahal kita Taiwanese : Gwa ai lee Tamil Naan Unnai Kadhalikiren (Entry by krishna connexions@theoffice.net) Thai : Phom Rak Khun Ch'an Rak Khun Tunisian : Ha eh bak Turkish : Seni seviyorum! Urdu : Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai (Entry by Magsemail@aol.com) Vietnamese : Anh ye^u em (man to woman) Em ye^u anh (woman to man) Toi yeu em Vlaams : Ik hou van jou Welsh : 'Rwy'n dy garu di. Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi) Yiddish : Ikh hob dikh lib Zazi : Ezhele hezdege (sp?) Zuni : Tom ho' ichema
@dipima (172)
• India
23 Feb 07
Wow...great job done by you mssnow!!!
@mssnow (9484)
• United States
23 Feb 07
Well, you didnt think i was going to type it al out did you? Of course I copied and pasted it. I admit it. lol
• Netherlands
5 May 07
In Indonesian language, aku sayang kamu In dutch language, ik hou van je
@sandy2k6 (393)
• India
24 Feb 07
In my language, its "aami tomake bhalo baasi"
@ravibabli (1557)
• India
23 Feb 07
I love you (Mein tumse pyaar karta hoon)
• India
24 Feb 07
In hindi its "mein tumse bahut pyaar karta hoon"
@juoanna (361)
• Portugal
27 Feb 07
Portugues: Eu Te Amo
• India
23 Feb 07
In hindi its mein tumse pyar karta hoon...