Valentine’s Day is once again around the corner. If you are dating someone that speaks another language, what better way to impress them than to say, "I love you" in their native tongue. Below is a list I found on www.galactic-guide.com.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Language Translation
Afrikaans Ek het jou liefe
Arabic BAHIBAK (female to male)
Arabic BAHIBIK (male to female)
Burmese chit pa de
Cambodian Bon sro lanh oon
Canadian French Sh’teme (spoken,sounds like this)
Cantonese Ngo oi ney
Chinese Wo ie ni
Corsican Ti tengu cara (to female)
Corsican Ti tengu caru (to male)
Croatian LJUBim te
Czech miluji te
Danish Jeg elsker dig
Dutch Ik hou van jou
Ecuador Quechua canda munani
Estonian Mina armastan sind
Farsi (Persian) doostat dAram
Filipino Mahal ka ta
Finnish Mina" rakastan sinua
Flemish Ik zie oe geerne
French Je t’aime
German Ich liebe Dich
Greek s’agapo
Hebrew Ani ohev otach (male to female)
Hebrew Ani ohevet otcha (female to male)
Hindi Mai tumse pyar karta hoo
Hopi Nu’ umi unangwa’ta
Hungarian Szeretlek
Icelandic Eg elska thig
Indonesian Saja kasih saudari
Irish taim i’ ngra leat
Italian ti amo
Japanese Kimi o ai shiteru
Klingon qabang
Klingon qaparHa’ (depends where in the galaxy you are)
Korean Tangsinul sarang ha yo
Kurdish Ez te hezdikhem
Lao Koi muk jao
Latin Te amo
Latvian Es milu tevi (Pronounced "Ess tevy meeloo")
Lisbon lingo gramo-te bue’, chavalinha
Lithuanian TAVE MYLIU (ta-ve mee-lyu)
Macedonian SAKAM TE!
Madrid lingo Me molas, tronca
Malay/Indonesian Aku sayang enkow
Malayalam Njyaan Ninne’ Preetikyunnu
Mandarin Wo ai ni
Mohawk Konoronhkwa
Navaho Ayor anosh’ni
Norwegian Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)
Persian Tora dost daram
Polish Kocham Cie
Portuguese Amo-te
Portuguese (Brazilian) Eu te amo
punjabi Mai taunu pyar karda
Romanian Te iu besc
Russian ya liubliu tebia
Serbian LUBim te.
Serbocroatian volim te
Sioux Techihhila
Slovak lubim ta
Slovene ljubim te
Spanish Te amo
SriLankan Mama Oyata Arderyi
Swahili Naku penda (followed by the person’s name)
Swedish Jag a"lskar dig
Swiss-German Ch’ha di ga"rn
Syrian/Lebanes BHEBBEK (to a female)
Syrian/Lebanes BHEBBAK (to a male)
Tagalog Mahal kita
Telugu/India Nenu Ninnu Premistunnanu
Thai Ch’an Rak Khun
Tunisian Ha eh bak
Turkish Seni seviyo*rum (o* means o)
Ukrainian ja tebe koKHAju
Vietnamese Em ye^u anh (woman to man)
Vietnamese Anh ye^u em (man to woman)
Vulcan Wani ra yana ro aisha
Welsh ‘Rwy’n dy garu di.
Yiddish Ich libe dich
Yugoslavian Ya te volim
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