On the note of Valentine’s Day, learn to say “I love you” in 100+ different languages!
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Say “I Love You” In 100 Languages
- English – I love you
- Afrikaans – Ek het jou lief
- Albanian – Te dua
- Arabic – Ana behibak (to male)
- Arabic – Ana behibek (to female)
- Armenian – Yes kez sirumem
- Bambara – M’bi fe
- Bengali – Ami tomake bhalobashi (pronounced: Amee toe-ma-kee bhalo-bashee)
- 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
- Cantonese – Ngo oiy ney a
- Mandarin – Wo ai ni
- Comanche – U kamakutu nu
- Corsican – Ti tengu caru (to male)
- Cree – Kisakihitin
- Creole – 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
- Farsi – Doset daram
- 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 female – “ani ohev otach” (said by male) “ohevet Otach” (said by female)
- Hebrew: To male – “ani ohev otcha” (said by male) “Ohevet ot’cha” (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
- 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 – Phom rak khun
- Tunisian – Ha eh bak
- Turkish – Seni Seviyorum
- Ukrainian – Ya tebe kahayu
- Urdu – mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
- Vietnamese – To female – Anh ye^u em
- Welsh – ‘Rwy’n dy garu di
- Yiddish – Ikh hob dikh
- Yoruba – Mo ni fe
- Zazi – Ezhele hezdege
- Zuni – Tom ho’ ichema
Happy Valentine’s Day from Bon Traveler!
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Xx,
Jessica
