The thing to translate is "I love you". I'm doing a piece of art and I really want to use "I love you" in many languages as the background.
2007-09-19 20:13:19 · 4 answers · asked by Becky 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
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!
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
Thai : Phom Rak Khun
Ch'an Rak Khun
Tunisian : Ha eh bak
Turkish : Seni seviyorum!
Ukrainian Ya kochayu tebe
Urdu : Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai
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
Zuni : Tom ho' ichema
2007-09-19 20:20:18 · answer #1 · answered by Natalie V 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Whew! Natalie V certainly ran the gamut of languages here.
Here are 4 more she didn't have:
Aloha au ia'oe - Hawaiian
oku ou ofa 'ia koe - Tongan
Ndinokuda - Shona
ou te alofa ia te oe- Samoan
If you go to the following website, you can find "I love you"
translated into many more languages:
http://www.freelang.net/expressions/iloveyou.html
2007-09-20 04:51:39 · answer #2 · answered by steiner1745 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Italian : Ti amo
Dutch : Ik hou van jou
French : Je t'aime
German : Ich liebe dich
Spanish : Te quiero
Bye
2007-09-19 20:36:04 · answer #3 · answered by Angie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
french: je t'aime
2007-09-19 20:24:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋