“I Love You” Translations

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When you go on a holiday, student exchange, business trip etc. you might have to speak another language. With my friends of AFS (American Field Service – a worldwide student exchange organisation), I’ve put together this list of translation to the world’s most popular sentence: “I love you”. Personally, I only speak German, French, Dutch and English, so I was glad that so many people helped me to put together this long list. Thanks folks!

I Love You in Sign Language

Language Translation
Afrikaans Ek is lief vir jou
Albanian te dua
Arabic Ana Ahebak / Ana Bahibak
Armenian yes kez shat em siroom
Assyr Az tha hijthmekem
Australian ‘ave a beer 🙂
Bahasa Malayu (Malaysia) Saya cinta mu
Bavarian I mog di
Bisaya Nahigugma ko nimo
Bosnian Ja te volim (formally) or volim-te
Bulgarian Obicham te
Cantonese Ngo Oi Nei
Chinese gnoy oy na
Goi Oi Lei (Hongkong)
Wa Ai Li (Taiwan)
Danish Jeg elsker dig
Dutch Ik hou van jou
English I love you
Esperanto Mi amas vim
Estonian Ma armastan sind / Mina armastan sind (formal)
Finnish Minä rakastan sinua
French Je t’aime
Gaelic Tá mé i ngrá leat
German Ich liebe Dich
Greek S’agapw
Hawaiian Aloha wau ia ‘oe
Hebrew Ani ohevet ota
Hindi Main tumsey pyaar karta hoon / Maine Pyar Kiya
Hmong Kuv Hlub Koj
Hungarian Szeretlek
Icelandic Eg elska thig
Indonesian Saya cinta padamu
Italian ti amo
Japanese Anata wa, dai suki desu
Javanese Kulo tresno marang panjenengan (formal)
aku terno kowe (informal)
Kapangpangan Kaluguran daka.
Korean SA LANG HAE / Na No Sa Lan Hei
Kurdish Khoshtm Auyt
Laos Chanrackkun
Latin Ego te amo (I used to have Latin in my 1st year at highschool)
Latvian Es mÓlu Tevi
Lithuanian As Myliu Tave
Macedonian Te sakam
Malay Saya cintakan mu / Saya cinta mu
Malteese Inhobbok hafna
Mandarin Wo Ai Ni
Norwegian Jeg elsker deg
Persian Tora Doost Darem
Pig Latin I-yea Ove-lea Ou-yea
Polish Kocham Cie
Portuguese Eu te amo (Brazilian)
Eu amo-te (continental)
Punjabi me tumse pyar ker ta hu’
Romanian Te iubesc
Russian Ya tebya liubliu
Serbo-Croatian Volim te
Sign language Spread hand out so no fingers are touching. Bring in middle & ring fingers and touch then to the palm of your hand.
Slovenian ljubim te
Spanish Te quiero / te amo / yo amor tu
Swahili Naku penda
Swedish Jag älskar dig
Swiss German Ch-ha di gärn
Tagalog Mahal Kita / Iniibig kita
Tamil Naan Unnai Khadalikkeren
Telugu Nenu Ninnu Premisthunnanu
Thai Khao Raak Thoe / chun raak ter
Turkish seni seviyorum
Ukranian Yalleh blutebeh / ya tebe kohayu
Urdu Mea tum se pyaar karta hu ( when a guy says it)
Mea tum se pyar karti hu (when a gal says it)
Vietnamese Toi yeu em

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