How do you say "I love you" in every language?
Have you always wanted to say "I love you" in an original way? Why limit yourself to a simple translation when you can add an exotic touch to your declarations? Ready to add some love words to your vocabulary?
How would you like to surprise your loved ones or even a stranger by saying "I love you" in their mother tongue? When travelling, knowing these simple but powerful words can open doors and create unexpected connections. Discover how a simple statement can make your encounters even more memorable!
Abé : Mon ko lo fon
Abouré : U'm wloloho
Acholi : Amari
Afar : Ko kicinio
Afghan : My derm dose
Afrikaans : Ek het jou liefe or Ek is lief vir jou
Akan : Me dor wo
Albanian : Te dua or Te dashoroj or Te dashoroj
Alentejano : Gosto de ti, porra!
German : Ich liebe Dich
Algerian : Kanbghik
Alsatian : Ich hoan dich gear
Amharic : Afekrishalehou or Afekrischaledou
English : I love you
Apache : Sheth she'n zho'n
Arabic : Ib'n hebbak or Ana Ba-heb-bak or Ana hebbek or Jag alskâr dej
Armenian : Yes kez si'rumem or Yar ounenal
Assamese (India) : I tomak bhal pau
Austrian : I mog di or I hab di gean or Ich liebe dich
Bemba (Zambia) : Nalikutemwa or Ninkutemwe
Bengali : Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi or Ami tomake bhalobashi
Berber : Lakh tirikh
Bicol (Philippian) : Namumutan ta ka
Burmese : Chi pa de or Min go nga chit tay
Bolivian (Quechua): Qanta munani
Bosnian : Volim te
Breton : Da garan' or Da garout a ran'
Bulgarian : Obicham te or As te obicham or Obozhavam te
Cambodian : Bon sro lanh oon
Cantonese : Ngo oi ney
Catalan : T'estimo or T'estim (Mallorcan) or T'estim molto or T'estime (Valencian)
Cebuano (Filipino): Gihigugmz ko ikaw
Chamorro : Hu guaiya hao
Cheyenne : Nemehotates
Chichewas : Ndimakukonda
Chickasaw (USA) : Chiholloli
Chinese : Goa ai li (Amoy dialect)
Chinese : Ngo oi ney (Cantonese dialect)
Chinese : Wo ai ni (Cantonese dialect)
Chinese : Ngai oi gnee (Hakka dialect)
Chinese : Ngai on ni (Hakka dialect)
Chinese : Wa ai lu (Hokkien dialect)
Chinese : Wo ai ni (Mandarin dialect)
Chinese : Wo ai ni (Putunghua dialect)
Chinese : Ngo ai nong (Wu dialect)
Commorien : Ni si ou ven sa or N' game handzo
Korean : Dangsinul saranghee yo or Saranghee or Nanun dangsineul joahapnida
Corsica : Ti tengu cara (H>F) or Ti tengu caru (F>H)
Creole : Mi aime jou
West Indian Creole : Men ainmainw
Martinique Creole : Men ainmainw
Guadeloupean Creole : Men ainmainw
Mauritian Creole : Mo happy you
Reunionese Creole : Mi aim a ou
Croatian : "Ja te volim" or "Volim te" or "Ja vas volim" or "Volim te".
Danish : "Jeg elsker dig
Davvi Semegiella : "Mun rahkistin dù
Dusun : "Siuhang oku dia
Ecuadorian (Quechua): "Canda munani
Spanish : "Te quiero" or "Te amo
Esperanto : "Mi amas vin
Estonian : "Mina armastan sind" or "Ma armastan sind
Ethopian : "Afgreki
Fang : "Ma dzing wa" or "Ma gnôre wa
Farsi : "Tora dust mi daram" or "Asheghetam ou doostat dAram" (Persian)
Finnish : "Minä rakastan sinua" or "Rakastan sinua" or "Minä pidä sinustra".
Flemish : "Ik hue van ye" or "Ik hue van dei" or "Ik hou van jou" (Dutch)
Fon : "Un nyi wan nu we
French : "I love you
Frisian : "Ik hou fan dei" or "Ik hald fan dei
Gbaya : "Mi ko me
Scottish Gaelic : "Tha gaol agam ort or Tha gaol agam oirbh
Irish Gaelic : "Moo graugh hoo
Galician : "Querote or Queroche or Amote
Welsh : "Rwy'n dy garu di" or "Yr wyf i yn dy garu di
Ghanaian (Akan, Twi): "Me dor wo
Greek : "S ayapo" or "Eime eroteumos mazi sou" or "Philo se" (Ancient Greek)
Greenlandic : "Asavakit
Guarani : "Rohiyu
Gujrati (Pakistan) : "Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon" or "Hoon tuney chaoon chhoon".
Hakka : "Ngai oi nyi
Hausa (Niger) : "Ina sonki
Hawaiian : "Aloha wau ia 'oe" or "Aloha wau ia 'oe nui loa".
Hebrew : "Ani ohev otach" (H>F) or "Anee ohevet otkha" (F>H)
Hindi : "Mae tumko pyar kia" or "My tumko pyar karta hu" or "Main tumse pyar karta hoon".
Hmong : "Kuv hlub koj
Hokkien : "Wa ai lu
Hungarian : "Szeretlek' or 'Szeretlek te'ged
Hopi : "Nu' umi unangw'ta
Ibaloi (Filipino) : "Pip-piyan taha" or "Pipiyan ta han shili".
Igbo : "A huru m gi n'anya
Imazighan : "Halagh kem
Indonesian : "Saya kasih saudari" or "Saya cinta kamu" or "Saya cinta padamu".
Irish : "Is breá liom tú
Icelandic : "Eg elska thig
Italian : "Ti amo" or "Ti voglio beneti" or "Ti adoro" or "Sei il mio amore".
Japanese : "Kimi o ai shiteru" or "Watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu" or "Kulo tresno
Javanese : "Kulo tresno
Kabile : "Hemlar kem" (H>F) or "Hemlark" (F>H)
Kankana-ey (Filipino) : "Laylaydek sik-a
Kannada (India) : "Naanu Ninnanu Preethisuthene" or "Naanu Ninnanu Mohisuthene".
Kikongo : Mu mezola nge
Kirundi (Burundi) : "Ndagukunda
Kituba : "Mono ke zola nge
Kiswahili : "Nakupenda
Klingon : "BangwI' Soh" or "QaparHa'" or "QamuShá" or "QaparHáqu'".
Kpele : "I walikana
Kurdish : "Ez te hezdikhem" or "Min te xushvet" or "Min te xoshvet" (southern dialect)
Lao : "Khoi huk chau" or "Khoi hak joa" or "Khoi hak chao" or "Khoi mak joa lai".
Lari (Congo, Pool region): "Ni kou zololo
Latin : "Te amo" or "Vos amo
Latvian : "Es milu tevi" or "Es tevi milu".
Lebanese : "Anna Bahibak
Lifou (Loyalty Island) : "Eni a nemi eo
Lingala : "Nalingi yo" or "Na lingui yo
Lithuanian : "Tave myliu
Lojban : "Mi do prami
Luo (Kenya) : "Aheri
Luxembourgish : "Ech hun dech gär
Maa : "Ilolenge
Macedonian : "Te sakam" or "Te ljubam" or "Jas te sakam" or "Pozdrav".
Maiese : "Wa wa ngomo mia
Malay : "Saya cinta padamu" or "Saya kasih padamu".
Malay/Bahasa : "Saya cinta mu
Malay/Indonesian : "Aku sayang kau
Malayalam : "Ngan ninne snaehikkunnu" or "Njyann ninne' preetikyunnu".
Malayasian : "Saya cintamu" or "Saya sayangmu" or "Saya cinta kamu".
Malagasy : "Anno Tioko" or "Tiako iano" or "Tianao aho
Mandarin : "Wo ai ni
Marathi : "Mi tuzya var karato" or "Me tujhashi prem karto" (H>F) or "Me tujhashi prem karte" (F>H)
Maré (Loyalty Island) : "Inû tchi a la bo
Moroccan : "Kanbhik or Kanhebek
Marquisian : "Hinenao ua'u ia oe
Marshall : "Yokwe Yuk
Mauritian : "Mo mari cotan toi
Mongolian : "Be Chamad Hairtai
Mohawk : "Konoronhkwa
Mooré (Burkina Faso) : "Mam nonga fo
Moyi (Congo Brazzaville) : "Gakakayo
Munukutuba (Southern Congo) : "Mu zola mgé" or "Mou zolagué
Navajo : "Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele (Zimbabwe): "Niyakutanda
Dutch : "Ik hou van jou
Nepalese : "Ma timi sita prem garchhu" or "Ma timilai maya garchhu".
Norwegian : "Jeg elskar deg" (Bokmaal) or "Eg elskar deg" (Nynorsk) or "Jeg elsker deg" (Bokmål)
Nyanja : "Ninatemba
Occitan gascon : "Que t'aimi
Languedoc Occitan : "T'aimi
Oriya: "Moon Tumakoo Bhala Paye or Moon Tumakoo Prema Kare
Oromoo : "Sinjaladha or Sinjaldha
Osetien : "Aez dae warzyn
Urdu (India) : "Mujge tumae mahabbat hai" or "Main tumse muhabbat karta hoon".
Uzbek : "Man seni sevaman
Pakistani : "Muje se mu habbat hai" or "Muje stumse mahabbat hai".
Papiamento : "Mi ta stimábo
Pedi : "Kiyahurata
Persia: "Tora dost daram
Pig Latin : "Ie ovele ouye
Picard : "Ej t'ei kier" or "Ej te vô voléntié
Filipino : "Mahal ka ta" or "Iniibig Kita
Poitevin-Saintongeais : "I t'aeme
Polish : "Kocham ciebie" or "Ja cie kocham".
Portuguese : "Eu te amo
Provencal-Rhodanian (Mistralian) : "T'ame"
Punjubi (India) : "Main tainu pyar karna" or "Mai taunu pyar kardar".
Quenay : "Tye-melane
Romanian : "Te iubesc' or 'Te ador
Russian : "Ya lioubliou tiebia" or "Ya tiebia lioubliou" or "Ya vas lioubliou".
Scanien (Skånska) : "Jâ hóllor âw di" or "Jâ ty'tjor omm di".
Samoen : "Ou te alofa outou" or "Ou te alofa ia te oe" or "Talo'fa ia te oe" or "Fia moi".
Sanskrit : "Anugrag
Serbian : "Ja vas volim" or "Volim vas" or "Ljubim te".
Sesotho : "Kiyahurata
Shona: "Ndinokuda
Singalese (Ceylon) : "Mama oyata adarei" or "Mama oyata aadareyi".
Sioux : "Techihhila
Somali : "Waan ku jaycahay
Slovak : "Lubim ta
Slovenian : "Ljubim te
Srilankan : "Mama oyata arderyi
Strasbourgeois (Alsatian variant) : Ich hoab dich gearn" or "Ich hoab dich leb" ("Ich hoab dich gearn" or "Ich hoab dich leb")
Sudanese (Bari): "Nan nyanyar do" or "Nan nyanyar do parik".
Suaheli : "Ninikupenda
Swahili : "Naku enda" or "Naku penda" or "Ninikupenda" or "Dholu'o
Swedish : "Jag älskar dig" or "Iaj Alskar Dej" or "Jag är kär i dig" (I am in love)
Swiss-German : "Ch'ha di gärn
Syrian/Lebanese : "Bhebbek" (H>F) or "Bhebbak" (F>H)
Tagalog : "Mahal kita
Tahitian : "Ua Here Vau Ia Oe" or "Ua here vau ia oe
Tamil : "Naan unni kathilikaran" or "Ni yaanai kaadli karen" or "Nam vi' remberem".
Czech : "Miluji te
Telugu (India) : "Neenu ninnu prámistu'nnanu" or "Nenu ninnu premistunnanu" or "Ninnu premistunnahu".
Thai : "Ch'an rak khun (F>H) or Phom rak khun (H>F) or Khoa raak thoe
Tibetan : "Na kirinla gaguidou
Tshiluba : "Ndi mukasua" or "Ndi musua wewe" or "Ndi ne ditalala bua wewe".
Tswama : "Ke a go rata
Tunisian : "Hebbek" or "Ha eh bakn
Tumbuka : "Nkhukutemwa
Turkish : "Seni seviyorum or Seni begeniyorum
Ukrainian : "Ya tebe kokhaiou
Unuit (Esquimo) : "Ounakrodiwakit
Vai : "Na lia
Värmländska : "Du är görgo te mäg
Vietnamese : "Em yeu anh" (F>H) or "Anh yeu em" (H>F)
Vilie (Congo) : "Mi bekuzola
Volapük : "Löfob oli
Vulcan : "Wani ra yana ro aisha
Walloon : "Dji vos veu volti" or "Dji vos inme" or "Dji v'zinme".
Wollof : "Da ma la nope" or "Da ma la nop
Yiddish : "Ich libe dich" or "Ich han dich lib".
Yucatec maya : "in k'aatech" or "in yabitmech".
Yugoslav : "Ya te volim
Zazi (Kurdish) : "Ezhele hezdege
Zulu : "Ngiyakuthanda or Mina Ngithanda Wena
Zuni : "Tom ho' ichema
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