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The "I love you" List: ================BEGIN=========================== afrikaans : Ek het jou liefe afrikaans : Ek is lief vir jou alsacien : Ich hoan dich gear amharic : Afekrishalehou arabic : Ana Behibak (to a male) arabic : Ana Behibek (to a female) arabic : Ib'n hebbak. arabic : Ana Ba-heb-bak arabic : nhebuk arabic : OHIBOKE male to female arabic : OHIBOKA femal to male arabic : OHIBOKOMA male or femal to two males or two femals arabic : NOHIBOKE more than one males or femals to femal arabic : NOHIBOKA m t o m or f to male arabic : NOHIBOKOMA m t o m or f to two males or tow femals arabic : NOHIBOKOM m t o m or f to more than two males arabic : NOHIBOKON m t o m or f to more than two femals arabic : (not standared) arabic : BAHIBAK femal to male arabic : BAHIBIK male to femal arabic : BENHIBAK more than one male or female to male arabic : BENHIBIK m t o m or f to female arabic : BENHIBKOM m t o m or f to more than one male assamese : Moi tomak bhal pau basc : Nere Maitea batak : Holong rohangku di ho bavarian : I mog di narrisch gern bengali : Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi bengali : Ami tomake bhalobashi. berber : Lakh tirikh bicol : Namumutan ta ka bolivian Quechua : qanta munani bulgarian : Obicham te cambodian : Bon sro lanh oon cambodian : kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah canadian French : Sh'teme (spoken, sounds like this) cantonese : Ngo oi ney catalan : T'estim (mallorcan) catalan : T'estim molt (I love you a lot) catalan : T'estime (valencian) catalan : T'estimo (catalonian) chinese : Wo ie ni croatian : LJUBim te czech : miluji te czech : MILUJU TE! (colloquial form) danish : Jeg elsker dig dutch : Ik houd van jou ecuador Quechua : canda munani esperanto : Mi amas vin estonian : Mina armastan sind estonian : Ma armastan sind farsi : Tora dust midaram farsi : Asheghetam farsi (Persian) : doostat dAram filipino : Mahal ka ta filipino : Iniibig Kita finnish : Mina" rakastan sinua flemish : Ik zie oe geerne french : Je t'aime friesian : Ik hou fan dei (sp?) gaelic : Ta gra agam ort german : Ich liebe Dich greek : s' agapo greek (old) : (Ego) philo su (ego is only needed for emphasis) gujrati : Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon. hausa : Ina sonki hebrew : Ani ochev otach (male to female) hebrew : Ani ochev otcha (male to male) hebrew : Ani ochevet otach (female to female) hebrew : Ani ochevet otcha (female to male) hindi : Mae tumko peyar kia hindi : My tumko pyar karta hu hindi : Main tumse pyar karta hoon. hindi : Ham Tomche Payer Kortahe hindi : Mai tumse peyar karta hnu. hokkien : Wa ai lu hopi : Nu' umi unangwa'ta hungarian : Szeretlek "yes, peter it's great :)" hungarian : Szeretlek te'ged indi : Mai tujhe pyaar kartha hoo indonesian : Saja kasih saudari indonesian : Saya Cinta Kamu indonesian : Saya cinta padamu indonesian : Aku cinta padamu irish : taim i' ngra leat italian : ti amo (if it's a relationship/lover/spouse ) italian : ti voglio bene (if it's a friend, or relative) japanese : Kimi o ai shiteru japanese : Watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu javanese : Kulo tresno kiswahili : Nakupenda klingon : qabang klingon : qaparHa' (depends from where you are in the galaxy) korean : Tangsinul sarang ha yo korean : Nanun tongshinun sarang hamnida kurdish : Ez te hezdikhem (?) lao : Koi muk jao latin : Te amo latin : Vos amo latin (old) : (Ego) amo te (ego, for emphasis) latvian : Es milu tebi lingala : Nalingi yo lithuanian : TAVE MYLIU ( ta-ve mee-lyu ) lojban : mi do prami luo : Aheri madrid lingo : Me molas, tronca malay : Saya cintamu malay : Saya sayangmu malay/Indonesian : Aku sayang enkow malay/Indonesian : Sayah Chantikan Awah mandarin : Wo ai ni mohawk : Konoronhkwa navaho : Ayor anosh'ni ndebele : Niyakutanda norwegian : Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk) norwegian : Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal) (pronounced: yai elske dai) osetian : Aez dae warzyn pakistani : Muje se mu habbat hai persian : Tora dost daram polish : Kocham Cie polish : Ja cie kocham portuguese : Eu te amo romanian : Te iu besc russian : Ya vas lyublyu russian : ya lyublyu tebya russian : ya tebya lyublyu russian : Ya polubeel s'tebya. scot Gaelic : Tha gra\dh agam ort (ascii prob here? help! ) serbian : LUBim te. serbocroatian : volim te shona : Ndinokuda sinhalese : Mama oyata adarei sioux : Techihhila slovak : lubim ta slovene : ljubim te spanish : Te quiero spanish : Te amo srilankan : Mama Oyata Arderyi swahili : Naku penda (followed by the person's name) swedish : Jag a"lskar dig swedish : Iaj Alskar Dej swiss-German : Ch'ha di ga"rn syrian/Lebanes : BHEBBEK (to a female) syrian/Lebanes : BHEBBAK (to a male) tagalog : Mahal kita tamil : Naan unni kathilikaran. tamil : Ni yaanai kaadli karen. tcheque : MILUJI TE^ telugu : Neenu ninnu pra'mistu'nnanu telugu/india : Nenu Ninnu Premistunnanu thai : Ch'an Rak Khun thai : Phom Rak Khun tunisian : Ha eh bak * turkish : Seni seviyo*rum (o* means o) ukrainian : Ya tebe kokhayu urdu : Mujge tumae mahabbat hai vietnamese : Em ye^u anh (woman to man) vietnamese : Toi yeu em vietnamese : Anh ye^u em (man to woman) vlaams : Ik hue van ye welsh : 'Rwy'n dy garu di. welsh : Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi) yiddish : Ich libe dich yiddish : Ich han dich lib yugoslavian : Ya te volim zazi : Ezhele hezdege (sp?) zuni : Tom ho' ichema ===================END=(i=hate=pascal=)========== Alsacien -> french/german dialect (live in france, but speak like german) Assamese -> language spoken in the state of Assam, India Batak -> North Sumatra province of indonesia Bengali -> language spoken in the state of West Bengal, India Bicol -> Philipin dialect Gujrati -> language spoken in the state of Gujrat, India Hindi -> language spoken in the nothern states of India Klingon -> Spoken in Star Trek Luo -> Kenya Ndebele -> Zimbabwe Shona -> Zimbabwe Tamil -> language spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India Vlaams -> Belgian Dutch Zazi -> Kurdic dialect I received the following note: >Dear Windell, > >I am somewhat displeased with the Japanese versions of "I love you" >that you included in your list. They are a bookish sort of >thing that a foreigner might say when trying a little bit too hard. >(The verb used is the one appropriate for telling a third party that >one is in love.) If you want to know the cheesey way it is said on >the evening soap operas (which I have seen too many of): > >man: Suki da. Suki da! >(suki pronounced ski) >woman: (in tears) Suki desu. (more tears) >(desu pronounced dess) > >(That is from a show called "My dream" Watashi no yume.) > >Rose of the Claremont Contingent I asked my friend Hiro, a Japanese citizen, to respond: > >As a native speaker of Japanese, I will relate the following: > >There is not one standard way of telling someone "I love you." in Japanese. >I feel that Japanese is not the best language to convey such feelings; >French does a much better job. I seldom say such things and I seldom hear >such things. I feel some itch when I hear _any_ equivalent of "I love >you." in Japanese; I feel the strain in the language which is imposed by >increasing international communication. It carrys a certain degree of >awkwardness (at least to me) no matter how you say and no matter who says >it. (Besides, I'd be scared if a foreigner said "Suki desu." to me!) > >The expressions that were given are both correct, and can be used >legitimately, depending on the situation. I won't give an example of how >each can be used, because it really is trivial. If you're not sure which >one you should use and don't want to look like a fool (as much as it would >be cute in its own right), use "I love you." Everyone understands what >you're trying to say. Is everything cleared up? (no, I don't have close friends for *every one* of those languages-- and I didn't compile the list, so I don't vouch for the accuracy of any one of them-- so please don't go telling some stranger in some strage land that you love them and blame me when you 'accidently' order an extra rare hamburger with sardines on it.)


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