How to Say I Love You in 40 Languages (with Pronunciation!) Posted by Transparent Language on Feb 1, 2017 in Archived Posts
Happy February, language learners!
It’s almost Valentine’s Day, which can only mean one thing: the Google searches for “How to say I love you in…” are about to start pouring in. We wanted to make it easier to find the affectionate phrase you’re looking for. Below you’ll learn how to say “I love you” in 40 different languages, pronunciation and audio included!
| Arabic |
أحبك | ‘ahabak | |
| Bulgarian |
обичам те | obicham te | |
| Chinese (Mandarin) |
我爱你 | Wǒ ài nǐ | |
| Croatian |
Volim te | ||
| Czech |
Miluji tě | ||
| Danish |
Jeg elsker dig | ||
| Dutch |
Ik houd van je | ||
| Esperanto |
Mi amas vin | ||
| Estonian |
Ma armastan sind | ||
| Farsi |
دوستت دارم | dootset daram | |
| French |
Je t’aime | ||
| German |
Ich liebe dich | ||
| Greek |
Σ’αγαπώ | S’agapó | |
| Hausa |
Ina k’aunarka
Ina k’aunarki. |
Addressing a male
Addressing a female |
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| Hindi |
मैं तुमसे प्यार करता हूँ।
मैं तुमसे प्यार करथि हूँ |
Main tumse pyar kartha hoon. (Spoken by a male)
Main tumse pyar karthee hoon. (Spoken by a female) |
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| Hungarian |
Szeretlek | ||
| Icelandic |
Ég elska þig | ||
| Indonesian |
Saya cinta padamu | ||
| Irish |
Tá grá agam duit | ||
| Italian |
Ti amo | ||
| Lihtuanian |
Aš tave myliu | ||
| Japanese |
愛しています | aishiteimasu | |
| Khmer (Cambodian) |
ខ្ញុំស្រឡាញ់អ្នក | khnhom sraleanh ‘nak | |
| Korean |
사랑해 | saranghae | |
| Luxembourgish An HTTP error occurred during file retrieval. Error Code: 403 |
Ech hun dech gär | ||
| Mongolian |
Би чамд хайртай | Bi chamd khairtai | |
| Norwegian |
Jeg elsker deg | ||
| Polish |
Kocham cię | ||
| Portuguese |
Eu te amo | ||
| Romanian |
Te iubesc | ||
| Russian |
я тебя люблю | ya tebya lyublyu | |
| Scottish Gaelic |
Tha gaol agam oirbh | ||
| Somali |
Waan ku jeclahay | ||
| Spanish |
Te amo | ||
| Swahili |
Nakupenda | ||
| Swedish |
Jag älskar dig | ||
| Thai |
ฉันรักคุณ | C̄hạn rạk khuṇ | |
| Turkish |
Seni seviyorum | ||
| Vietnamese |
Anh yêu em | ||
| Welsh |
Rwy’n dy garu di | ||
| Zulu |
Ngiyakuthanda |
We love learning new languages as much as we love teaching them. Know how to say “I love you” in a language not listed above? Add it in the comments!
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Comments:
Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin:
I am disappointed that you did not add Hebrew but you did present Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Somali. Perhaps next year?
Transparent Language:
@Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin It has nothing to do with the language itself, we are actually just missing someone to provide the audio, but the Hebrew text is: אני אוהב אותך
And for fun, we also have a Hebrew blog post on different nicknames you can use for your loved ones: https://blogs.transparent.com/hebrew/i-love-you-darling/
Tugce:
@Transparent Language Excuse me but did you look down on Turkish ? Or did I get you wrong??
ALI:
Very sad you didn’t get URDU…. it should be among them all…
Transparent Language:
@ALI We’d love to expand our list with the help of readers! Since there’s no audio, the phonetic spelling might be most helpful for Urdu, especially to see the difference between the two:
maiN aap say piyar karta hooN (when spoken by a male)
maiN aap say piyar karti hooN (when spoken by a female)
blueeyedbear:
In Lithuanian it’s “Aš tave myliu” and I can provide audio
Transparent Language:
@blueeyedbear Thank you! If you shoot an .mp3 to mmcgonagle@transparent.com we’ll add it ASAP! 🙂
Magda:
I think that Ti amo would be more natural translation in Italian.
Vivek:
Hello TL!
Regarding the Hindi equivalents, the second ‘kartee’ should be written the way ‘kartaa’ is written but with also a curve connecting the ‘taa’ part of it. The curve makes it ‘tee’. What’s written right now is ‘karthi’…which isn’t right. Hope that helps! 🙂
Vivek
Ana:
I agree with Magda. “Ti voglio bene” means something like “I care about you” and it has a slightly different meaning than “Ti amo” which means “I love you”.
Transparent Language:
@Ana Thank you both for the correction, we’ve changed it up in the post to best reflect the meaning. 🙂
musikmadchen:
‘Ljubim te’ in sLOVEnian!
Transparent Language:
@musikmadchen Oooh thank you for this one! The moderator of this account is about to move to Ljubljana and will be needing this. 🙂
porracchia:
arout a ran ac’hanout / da garout a ran / me az kar en Breton
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maite zaitut en Basque
Helpcomputer:
And
Azerbaijani :: Mən səni sevirəm
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