Say I Love You in 100 Different Languages

Say I Love You in 100 Different Languages...

By Karamat Adeel I love you. Three little words that are spoken with great pleasure all over the world. Journeywoman recently checked our dictionary and thesaurus for the many meanings of love. Just like the Eskimos who have many different words to describe the different kinds of snow they experience, we found that we have many different words to describe the many assorted ways we can express love. Love can mean (noun) fondness, liking, attachment, affection, friendliness, amity, inclination, cordiality, geniality, regard, devotion, warmth, adoration, tenderness, endearment, passion, desire, amour, infatuation, craving, longing, yearning, coveting, ardor, rapture, crush, flame (verb) like, adore, adulate, worship, cherish, yearn for, hold dear, pine for, enjoy, like, delight in, savor, fancy, admire, caress, embrace, kiss, cuddle, hug, pamper. Who knows? There could be a time you might need these three little words as you travel the world. 'Love is the same as like except you feel sexier' (Judith Viorst, Author) 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 Chinese 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) 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 gra\dh 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