Love in Different Languages

The language of love is universal - it just sounds different.

A Rose by any other name, said Shakespeare, still doth smell as sweet. Or something of the sort. By the same logic, people, Love in any other language still got to mean the same. In our present globalized world you never know who you might run into and with some luck fall for. Better to wander around prepared.

English, Latin, and Pig Latin Versions

English

• I love you

Latin

• Te amo

Pig Latin

• I-yea Ove-lea Ou-yea

I Love You in South Asian Languages

Hindi

• Main tumse muhabbat karta hoon

Punjabi

• Main tainu pyar karna

Bengali

• Aami tomaake bhaalo baashi

Gujarati

• Tane Prem Karoo Choo

Tamil

• Naan Unnai Kadhalikiren

Telugu

• Nenu Ninnu Premisthunnanu

Sri Lankan

• Mama oyata arderyi

Kapangpangan

• Kaluguran daka

I Love You in Middle Eastern Languages

Farsi

• Tora dost daram

Arabic

• Ana ahebik

Turkish

• Seni seviyorum

Kurdish

• Ez te hezdikhem

Lebanese

• Bahibak

I Love You in East and Southeast Asian Languages

Japanese

• Kimi o ai shiteru

Chinese

• Ngo oi ney

Mandarin

• Wo ai ni

Taiwanese

• Gwa ai lee

Korean

• Dangsinul saranghee yo

Cambodian

• Kh’nhaum soro’lahn nhee’ah

Hmong

• Kuv Hlub Koj

Laon

• Khoi hak jao

Filipino

• Mahal ka ta

Malay

• Saya cinta pada mu

Thai

• Chan raak ther

Indonesian

• Saya cinta padamu

Javanese

• Aku terno kowe

Burmese

• Chit pa te

Bisaya

• Nahigugma ko nimo

I Love You in European Languages

French

• Je t’aime

German

• Ich liebe dich

Bavarian

• I mog di narrisch gern

Swiss-German

• Ch’ha di ga”rn

Spanish

• Te adoro

Madrid lingo

• Me molas, tronca

Basque

• Nere maitea

Catalan

• T’estim

Esperanto

• Mi amas vin

Creole

• Mi aime jou

Lojban

• mi do prami

Portuguese

• Eu amo te

Italian

• Ti amo

Greek

• S’ayapo

Macedonian

• Te ljubam

Albanian

• Te dua

Dutch

• Ik hou van je

Flemish

• Ik zie oe geerne

Vlaams

• Ik hou van jou

Friesian

• Ik bin fereale op dy

Luxembourgish

• Ech hun dech ga ‘r

Gaelic

• Tha gaol agam ort

Welsh

• Rwy’n dy garu di

Irish

• Taim i’ ngra leat

Maltese

• Inhobbok

Icelandic

• Eg elska thig

Greenlandic

• Asavakit

Danish

• Jeg elsker dig

Norwegian

• Jeg elsker deg

Swedish

• Jag a lskar dig

Finnish

• rakastan sinua

Polish

• Kocham cie

Hungarian

• Szeretlek

Bulgarian

• Obicham te

Romanian

• Te iubesc

Yugoslavian

• Ja te volim

Czech

• Miluji te

Slovak

• Lubim ta

Bosnian

• Volim te

Croatian

• Volim te

Serbian

• Volim te

Russian

• Ya tyebya lyublyu

Ukrainian

• Ya tebe kokhayu

Estonian

• Mina armastan sind

Latvian

• Es tevi milu

Lithuanian

• Tave myliu

Armenian

• Yes kez si’rumem

Assyr

• Az tha hijthmekem

Kazakh

• Men seny jaksy kuremyn

Yiddish

• Ikh hob dikh lib

I Love You in African, Pacific, and Indigenous Languages

Bicol

• Namumutan ta ka

Berber

• Lakh tirikh

Amharic

• Afekrishalehou

Moroccan

• Kanbhik

Tunisian

• Ha eh bak

Somali

• Waan ku gealahay

Kenyan

• Aheri

Lingala

• Nalingi yo

Ugandan

• Nkwagala Nyo

Zulu

• Mena tanda wena

Ndebele

• Niyakutanda

Hausa

• Ina sonki

Shona

• Ndinokuda

Swahili

• Nakupenda

Afrikaans

• Ek is lief vir jou

Vulcan

• Wani ra yana ro aisha

Tahitian

• Ua here au ia oe

Hawaiian

• Aloha wau ia oi

Samoan

• Ou te alofa outou

Brazilian

• Eu te amo

Bolivian

• Qanta munani

Hokkien

• Wa ai lu

Apache

• Sheth she ’n zho ’n

Cheyenne

• Ne mohotatse

Chickasaw

• Chiholloli

Hopi

• Nu’ umi unangw’ta

Mohawk

• Konoronhkwa

Navajo

• Ayor anosh’ni

Sioux

• Techihhila

Zuni

• Tom ho’ ichema

Eskimo

• Nagligivaget