Love is a beautiful thing, it is even made more beautiful because it transcends all languages, cultures and countries. The L-word is a heavy, serious and meaningful for some local language users and if you have ever uttered the words, I love you and meant them then you know how powerful they are.
It’s an amazing thing to love and be loved whether by your family, by your friends or by your significant other. In fact, our method of communicating using language and our ability to love, remain special to every human being. Love can heal. It is kind, forgiving, unbiased and always reliable.
Make it your goal today to let the people you love know much they mean to you. Make it even better by telling them you love them in several languages. If you are wondering how you can relate how important people express their feelings from around the world using diverse cultures express love and affection, then you’re in the right place. Here are 70 translations of the phrase – I love you.
The Usual Suspects In Saying I Love You
These are everyone’s immediate go to languages and the languages you’d expect to start off this list. If you are an enthusiastic linguist looking to add more diverse phrases to your multilingual arsenal, then these linguistic mascots of love will help you get there.
1. English – I love you
2. French – Je t’aime
3. Spanish – Te amo
4. Italian – Ti amo
5. German – Ich liebe dich
6. Russian – Ya lyublyu tebya
7. Latin – Te Amo
8. Greek – Se agapó
9. Arabic – ‘Inna ahbk
10. Swahili – Nakupenda
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The Unusual Suspects
Love is beautiful in any language. While these might not be the first languages to pop up on your list when searching for translations of the phrase ‘I love you’, they, however, prove that the beauty of love is universal.
11. Japanese – Watashi wa, anata o aishiteimasu
12. Mandarin – Wo ai ni
13. Turkish – Seni seviyorum
14. Polish – Kocham Cię
15. Finnish – Minä rakastan sinua
16. Romanian – Te iubesc
17. Welsh – Rwy’n dy garu di
18. Vietnamese – Anh ye^u em (to female), Em ye^u anh (to male)
19. Afrikaans – Ek het jou lief
20. Yoruba – Mo nifẹ rẹ
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21. Icelandic – Ég elska þig
22. Igbo – A hụrụ m gị n’anya
23. Hungarian – Szeretlek
24. Hindi – Main tumase pyaar karata hoon
25. Xhosa – Ndiyakuthanda
26. Norwegian – Jeg elsker deg
27. Belarusian – Ja ciabie kachaju
28. Bulgarian – Obicham te
29. Punjabi – Maiṁ tuhānū pi’āra karadā hāṁ
30. Zulu – Ngiyakuthanda
31. China – Wǒ ài nǐ
32. Cambodian – Bung Srorlagn Oun (to female), Oun Srorlagn Bung (to male)
33. Catalan – T’estimo
34. Chichewa (Bantu) – Ndimakukonda
35. Bengali –
36. Bulgarian – Obicham te
37. Bangla – Aamee tuma ke bhalo baashi
38. Korean – 사랑해 (Saranghae)
39. Czech – Miluji te
40. Danish – Jeg Elsker Dig
41. Dutch – Ik hou van jou
42. Esperanto – Mi amas vin
43. Ethiopian – Ewedishalehu
44. Filipino – Mahal kita
45. Persian – Doo…set daaram
Love, as we know, is pure, sweet and most importantly, painful. True love, no doubt, is overwhelming.Every living thing, including animals, depend on it and it often seems like our planet would stop spinning if love didn’t exist. Love is something we strive for and something we mourn the loss of.
46. Portuguese – Eu te amo
47. Romanian – Te iubesc
48. Scot Gaelic – Tha gradh agam ort
49. Serbian … Volim te
50. Slovak – Lu`bim ta
51. Hebrew – Ani ohev otakh
52. Slovenian – Ljubim te
53. Surinam – Mi lobi joe
54. Thai – P̄hm rạk khuṇ
55. Swiss-German – Ich lieb Di
56. Basque – maite zaitut
57. Pashto – za la ta sara meena kawom
58. Indonesian– Saya cinta padamu
59. Lithuanian – Tave myliu
60. Moroccan – Ana moajaba bik
61. Cheyenne – Nemehotatse
62. Swedish – Jag alskar dig
63. Tagalog – Mahal kita
64. Taiwanese – Wa ga ei li
65. Ukrainian – Ya tebe kahayu
66. Yiddish – Ikh hob dikh
67. Papiamento – Mi ta stimabo
68. Nepali – Ma Timilai Maya Garchhu
69. Navaho – Ayor anosh’ni
70. Sundanese – Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
While we try to learn how to use this phrase in different languages of the world, there are a few facts about love we need to remind ourselves of:
- That it takes less than five minutes for us to decide whether we like someone or not and we also have the same minutes to create a good impression on such a person.
- Being in love with someone has some neurological effects similar to those of cocaine. Research has proven that our hormones, interests, and upbringing all play a role in determining who we love — and who falls for you.
- Psychologists also say that human beings are not capable of being “just friends” with members of the opposite sex because the act of falling in love is known to have a calming effect on a person’s body and mind. This, in turn, will raise levels of nerve growth for about a year.
- That love is sweet but at most times, very painful. Research has proven that intense, traumatizing events, such as a break-up, loss of a loved one or betrayal can cause real physical pains in one’s heart. It leads to what scientists call the Broken Heart Syndrome. The condition is often misdiagnosed as heart attack and tends to affect women more often.
