From: rcs61423@zach.fit.edu (Thomas Otake /ADVISOR Clay)
Date: 26 Jun 91 17:48:00 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.sex
Subject: Compilation - "I love you"

I have no idea of how the thread "How to say....", i.e. how to
say "I love you" in various languages, ended up in alt.sex since I
didn't post it on a.s. Anyways, since it did show up I might as well
post the compilation.

Enjoy!

Tom
rcs61423@zach.fit.edu

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Afrikaans	: Ek is lief vir jou 
		: Ek het jou liefe 
Amharic		: Afekrishalehou
Arabic		: Ana Behibak (to a male) 
		: Ana Behibek (to a female) 
Basc		: Nere Maitea
Bavarian	: I mog di narrisch gern
Bengali		: Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
Berber		: Lakh tirikh
Bicol		: Namumutan ta ka 
Bulgarian	: Obicham te
Cambodian	: kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah
		: Bon sro lanh oon
Cantonese	: Ngo oi ney 
Catalan		: T'estim   (mallorcan)
		: T'estime  (valencian)
		: T'estimo  (catalonian)
		: T'estim molt (I love you a lot)
Chinese		: Wo ie ni	(Manderin, Cantonese)
Croatian	: LJUBim te
Czech		: miluji te
Danish		: Jeg elsker dig 
Dutch		: Ik houd van jou 
Estonian	: Mina armastan sind
Esperanto       : Mi amas vin
Farsi		: Tora dust midaram 
Flemish		: Ik zie oe geerne 
Finnish		: Mina" rakastan sinua 
French		: Je t'aime 
Friesian 	: Ik hou fan dei (sp?)
Gaelic		: Ta gra agam ort
German		: Ich liebe Dich
Greek		: S' ayapo
Hausa		: Ina sonki
Hebrew		: aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA  (female to male)
		: aNEE oHEIV otAKH    (male to female) 
		: Ani ohev at (man to woman)
		: Ani ohevet atah (woman to man)
Hindi		: Mae tumko peyar kia
Hokkien		: Wa ai lu
Hopi		: Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian	: Szeretlek te'ged 
Indonesian	: Saya cinta padamu 
		: Saya Cinta Kamu
		: Aku tjinta padamu
		: Saja kasih saudari 
Italian		: Ti amo  
Irish		: taim i' ngra leat
Japanese	: Kimi o ai shiteru 
Kiswahili	: Nakupenda
Korean		: Tangsinul sarang ha yo
Kurdish		: Ez te hezdikhem (?)
Latin		: Te amo 
		: Vos amo 
Lao		: Khoi huk chau
Lingala		: Nalingi yo
Luo		: Aheri
Madrid lingo	: Me molas, tronca  
Malay/Indonesian: Sayah Chantikan Awah
		: Aku sayang enkow
Malay		: Saya cintamu 
		: Saya sayangmu 
Mandarin	: Wo ai ni
Mohawk		: Konoronhkwa
Navaho		: Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele		: Niyakutanda
Norwegian	: Jeg elsker deg   (Bokmaal)
		: Eg elskar deg    (Nynorsk)
Pakistani	: Muje se mu habbat hai
Persian		: Tora dost daram
Pilipino	: Mahal Kita
		: Iniibig Kita
Polish		: Kocham Cie  
		: Yacha kocham
Portuguese	: Eu te amo
Romanian	: Te iu besc
Russian		: Ya lyublyu tebya 
		: Ya vas lyublyu
Scot Gaelic	: Tha gra\dh agam ort 
Serbian		: LUBim te.
Serbocroatian	: volim te 
Shona		: Ndinokuda
Sioux		: Techihhila
Slovak		: lubim ta 
Slovene		: ljubim te 
Spanish		: Te quiero 
Swahili		: Nakupenda
Swedish		: Jag a"lskar dig
Swiss-German	: Ch'ha di ga"rn 
Tagalog		: Mahal kita
Thai		: Phom Rak Khun 
		: Ch'an Rak Khun
Tunisian	: Ha eh bak
Turkish		: Seni seviyurum
Urdu		: Mujge tumae mahabbat hai
Vietnamese	: Anh ye^u em	(man to woman)
		: Em ye^u anh	(woman to man)
		: Toi yeu em
Vlaams 		: Ik hue van ye
Welsh		: 'Rwy'n dy garu di.
		: Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi) 
Yiddish		: Ikh hob dikh lib 
Yugoslavian	: Ya te volim
Zazi 		: Ezhele hezdege (sp?)
Zuni		: Tom ho' ichema

Bicol		-> Philipin dialect 
Ndebele		-> Zimbabwe 
Vlaams 		-> Belgian Dutch
Zazi		-> Kurdic dialect
B
Shona		-> Zimbabwe
Luo		-> Kenya

a"		-> a with umlaut
e^		-> ^ above e

