Today’s Thought to Share – 77+ ways to say I Love You in different languages

Today’s thought to share is dedicated to my husband, with whom I’ll be celebrating 15 years of marriage this month. 

Ever have an insane urge to whisper sweet nothings in Mandarin or Elvish or Latin or Macedonian or Norwegian or Swedish or … you get the idea?  If so, feast your eyes on:

• English – I love you
• Afrikaans – Ek het jou lief
• Albanian – Te dua
• Arabic – Ana behibak (To a man)
• Arabic – Ana behibek (To a woman)
• Armenian – Yes kez sirumem
• Bambara – M’bi fe
• Bengali – Ami tomake bhalobashi
• Belarusian – Ya tabe kahayu
• Bisaya – Nahigugma ako kanimo
• Bulgarian – Obicham te
• Cambodian – Soro lahn nhee ah
• Catalan – T’estimo
• Cherokee – Tsi ge yu i
• Cheyenne – Ne mohotatse
• Chichewa – Ndimakukonda
• Chinese
  • Cantonese – Ngo oiy ney a
  • Mandarin – Wo ai ni

  Comanche – U kamakutu nu

• Cree – Kisakihitin
• 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)
• Esperanto – Mi amas vin
• Estonian – Ma armastan sind
• Ethiopian – Afgreki’
• Faroese – Eg elski teg
• Filipino – Mahal kita
• Finnish – Mina rakastan sinua
• French – Je t’aime, Je t’adore
• Frisian – Ik hald fan dy
• Gaelic – Ta gra agam ort
• Georgian – Mikvarhar
• German – Ich liebe dich
• Greek – S’agapo
• Gujarati – Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
• Hiligaynon – Palangga ko ikaw
• Hawaiian – Aloha Au Ia`oe
• Hebrew
  • To a woman – "ani ohev otach" (said by the man) "ohevet Otach" (said by the woman)
  • To a man – "ani ohev otcha" (said by the man) "Ohevet ot’cha" (said by the woman)
• Hiligaynon – Guina higugma ko ikaw
• Hindi – Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
• Hmong – Kuv hlub koj
• Hopi – Nu’ umi unangwa’ta
• Hungarian – Szeretlek
• Icelandic – Eg elska tig
• Ilonggo – Palangga ko ikaw
• Indonesian – Saya cinta padamu
• Inuit – Negligevapse
• Irish – Taim i’ ngra leat
• Italian – Ti amo
• Japanese – Aishiteru or Anata ga daisuki desu
• Kannada – Naanu ninna preetisuttene
• Kapampangan – Kaluguran daka
• Kiswahili – Nakupenda
• Konkani – Tu magel moga cho
• Korean – Sarang Heyo or Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida
• Latin – Te amo
• Latvian – Es tevi miilu
• Lebanese – Bahibak
• Lithuanian – Tave myliu
• Luxembourgeois – Ech hun dech gaer
• Macedonian – Te Sakam
• Malay – Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
• Malayalam – Njan Ninne Premikunnu
• Maltese – Inhobbok
• Marathi – Me tula prem karto
• Mohawk – Kanbhik
• Moroccan – Ana moajaba bik
• Nahuatl – Ni mits neki
• Navaho – Ayor anosh’ni
• Ndebele – Niyakutanda
• Norwegian
  • Bokmaal – Jeg elsker deg
  • Nyonrsk – Eg elskar 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 gradh 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
  • To a woman – Phom rak khun
  • To a man – Chan rak khun
• Tunisian – Ha eh bak
• Turkish – Seni Seviyorum
• Ukrainian – Ya tebe kahayu
• Urdu – mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
• Vietnamese
  • To a woman – Anh ye^u em
  • To a man – Em ye^u anh
• Welsh – ‘Rwy’n dy garu di   
• Yiddish – Ikh hob dikh
• Yoruba – Mo ni fe
• Zazi – Ezhele hezdege
• Zuni – Tom ho’ ichema

And if you want an even MORE comprehensive list, check out All the Translations of I Love You over at Who Do You Love?

Enjoy,

Barbara Ling

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