How to say "I love you" in your mother tongue?
By stukapilot
@stukapilot (116)
China
December 16, 2009 6:57am CST
Hi, guys.
Seems like "I love you" is an ancient but still romantic sentence.So I just wanna know how to say "I love you" in your first language.
And as a Chinese, i of course know how to say: ???(Woh Ai Nie),sth like this pronunciation.
Also, as i Deutsch-learner I know some others coz i'm quite interested in Linguas.
French: Je T'aime.
German: Ich liebe dich.
Italian: Ti Amo.
Russian: ? ???? ?????(Ya tebya lyublyu)
So, others? Mind telling me and how it pronunced?
18 responses
@stukapilot (116)
• China
16 Dec 09
Yeah, sth like Italian and if i remember correctly, it's still what Latin says, right?
@felliana (114)
• Philippines
17 Dec 09
Philippines do have lots of language to speak to, because this was divided into different places, Luzon-Visayas-Mindanao, and each part do have several laguages, however, our main language is Tagalog...i reside in Visayas region, so i speak Visayan language, "I love you" in Visayan language is "Gihigugma ko ikaw", or "Gihigugma ta ka" ...
very nice discussion,happy lotting",)
@shambhukumar (763)
• India
16 Dec 09
oo so nice ya tebya lyublyu. i will this one to a girl. she would not be able to understand it. hahaha. ok dear i will also tell you what do we say "i love you" in my language. i am from india and my mother tongue is Hindi. we say "main tumse pyar karta hoon" . ok tell me stukapilot whom would you tell these magic words. please share this as well with us.
any way happy mylotting
@stukapilot (116)
• China
16 Dec 09
"Main Tumse pyar karta hoon" in Hindi? Voila!
Whom? I only tell whom i love. ^-^
@stukapilot (116)
• China
16 Dec 09
Hi, thea09, or to say politely: Bonjour, Mademoiselle thea09.
Hellenic alphabet is not fresh for me. All maths symbols, especially algebra are Hellenic letters, right?
And u mention the word "alphabet" a combination of two Greek letters?
And a English slang "from Alpha to Omega", i familiar that.
And of course, the slang in English "Speak Greek" has the same meaning with "Speak Chinese", right?
thanx for your words.
@sarlyntenerife (326)
• Philippines
26 Dec 09
In the Philippines, my mother tongue is kapampangan, so it is kaluguran da ka but I speak kapampangan and tagalog and in tagalog, it is mahal kita or iniibig kita.
@myramae19 (667)
• Philippines
21 Dec 09
I also went to korea and i learned basic " hangug mal " i love you in hangug is " saranghae " sa/rang/hae :)
@jlamela (4897)
• Philippines
17 Dec 09
Hello I am living here in the Philippines, and I Love You in Filipino is "Mahal Kita". Our language originated from Malay and Spanish. But English is also our second official language.
@alwayzzcitra (1861)
• Indonesia
17 Dec 09
I am Indonesia and in my native language to say I love you is "aku mencintaimu" or "aku cinta kamu". I agree with you, it's the most romantic and impressive expression that all people in the world have.
@amijor (234)
• Philippines
17 Dec 09
When we use our NATIONAL language which is Filipino (Philippines) we say "Mahal kita" or "Minamahal kita" or "Iniibig kita". But when I say it in my local dialect which is, Cebuano (Cebu is a province in the Phil.) I say, "Gihigugma ko ikaw"
@lizbenetua (637)
• Philippines
16 Dec 09
I am Filipino, so it will be said as " Mahal na mahal kita" roughly translated as I love you very much. Filipino is very syllabic and every word is stressed, so you say every syllable as Ma/hal/ na/ ma/hal/ ki/ta! Unlike in the American accent wherein some words are stressed and some are not, and some even in liaisons.
I am also learning Japanese so I would say " Aishiteru yo" or "I really love you" and you say it as ay/shte/ru yo, the i after sh silent.
@speedlover1994 (217)
• United States
17 Dec 09
Well English is my first language, but I can speak some Russian. It is as you said, Ya Lyublyu tebya, or, in the Russian alphabet:
? ????? ????. Cheers!
@prettychai (110)
• Philippines
17 Dec 09
hello...
I am from the Ilocos region of the Philippines, we say i love u as AY-AYATEN KA- /ay/ah/ya/ten/ka/
@myramae19 (667)
• Philippines
21 Dec 09
I am from philippines, our main language is tagalog,i love you in tagalog is " mahal kita " but since I am from zamboanga this is a part of mindanao. hmmm... when i say i love you to my mother i usually use our own dialect which is chavacano(zamboanga city) " ta ama yo kontigo " some native elders from zamboanga use " yo te amo "
merry christmas!
