Last updated on March 3rd, 2024
These three little words can help you as you travel the world
by Evelyn Hannon, Founder, JourneyWoman
I love you. Three little words that are spoken with great pleasure all over the world. JourneyWoman recently checked our dictionary and thesaurus for the many meanings of love. Just like the Eskimos who have many different words to describe the different kinds of snow they experience, we found that we have many different words to describe the many assorted ways we can express love.
Love can mean (noun) fondness, liking, attachment, affection, friendliness, amity, inclination, cordiality, geniality, regard, devotion, warmth, adoration, tenderness, endearment, passion, desire, amour, infatuation, craving, longing, yearning, coveting, ardour, rapture, crush, flame (verb) like, adore, adulate, worship, cherish, yearn for, hold dear, pine for, enjoy, like, delight in, savour, fancy, admire, caress, embrace, kiss, cuddle, hug, pamper.
Who knows? There could be a time you might need these three little words as you travel the world.
‘Love is the same as like except you feel sexier’
(Judith Viorst, Author)
Afrikaans: Ek he jou lief
Albanian: Te dua
Arabic: Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic: Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian: Yes kex sirumem
Bambara: M’bi fe
Bengali: Ami tomake bhalobashi
(pronounced: Amee toe-ma-kee bhalo-bashee)
Belarusian: Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya: Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian: Obicham te
Cambodian: Soro lahn nhee ah
Catalan: T’estimo
Cherokee: Tsi ge yu i
Cheyenne: Ne mohotatse
Chichewa: Ndimakukonda
Chinese
Cantonese: Ngo oiy ney a
Mandarin: Wo ai ni
Comanche: U kamakutu nu
Corsican: Ti tengu caru (to male)
Cree: Kisakihitin
Creole: Mi aime jou
Croatian: Volim te
Czech: Miluji te
Danish: Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch: Ik hou van jou
(from The Lord of The Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien)
English: I love you
Esperanto: Mi amas vin
Estonian: Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian: Afgreki’
Farsi: Doset daram
Filipino: Mahal kita
Finnish: Mina rakastan sinua
French: Je t’aime, Je t’adore
Frisian: Ik hald fan dy
Gaelic: Ta gra agam ort
Georgian: Mikvarhar
German: Ich liebe dich
Greek: S’agapo
Gujarati: Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hawaiian: Aloha Au Ia`oe
Hebrew
To female: “ani ohev otach” (said by male)
“ohevet Otach” (said by female)
To male: “ani ohev otcha” (said by male)
“Ohevet ot’cha” (said by female)
Hiligaynon: Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi: Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong: Kuv hlub koj
Hopi: Nu’ umi unangwa’ta
Hungarian: Szeretlek
Icelandic: Eg elska tig
Ilonggo: Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian: Saya cinta padamu
Inuit: Negligevapse
Irish: Taim i’ ngra leat
Italian: Ti amo
Kannada: Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan: Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili: Nakupenda
Konkani: Tu magel moga cho
Korean: Sarang Heyo or Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida
Latvian: Es tevi miilu
Lebanese: Bahibak
Lithuanian: Tave myliu
Luxembourgeois: Ech hun dech gaer
Macedonian: Te Sakam
Malay: Saya cintakan mu /
Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam: Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Maltese: Inhobbok
Marathi: Me tula prem karto
Mohawk: Kanbhik
Moroccan: Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl: Ni mits neki
Navaho: Ayor anosh’ni
Ndebele: Niyakutanda
Norwegian
Bokmaal: Jeg elsker deg
Nyonrsk: Eg elskar deg
Pandacan: Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan: Inaru Taka
Papiamento: Mi ta stimabo
Persian: Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin: Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish: Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese: Eu te amo
Russian: Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic: Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian: Volim te
Setswana: Ke a go rata
Sign Language: „,/ (represents position of fingers when signing ‘I Love You’)
Sindhi: Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux: Techihhila
Slovak: Lu`bim ta
Slovenian: Ljubim te
Spanish: Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili: Ninapenda wewe
Swedish: Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German: Ich lieb Di
Surinam: Mi lobi joe
Tagalog: Mahal kita
Taiwanese: Wa ga ei li
Tahitian: Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil: Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu: Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai: Phom rak khun
Tunisian: Ha eh bak
Turkish: Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian: Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu: mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese: To female – Anh ye^u em
Welsh: ‘Rwy’n dy garu di
Yiddish: Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba: Mo ni fe
Zazi: Ezhele hezdege
Zuni: Tom ho’ ichema
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Evelyn Hannon
Evelyn started Journeywoman in 1994, and unknowingly became the world's first female travel blogger. She inspired a sisterhood of women, a grassroots movement, to inspire women to travel safely and well, and to connect women travellers around the world. She passed away in 2019, but her legacy lives on.
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