GEN: I LOVE YOU (corrected and ammended :) thank you all! (fwd)

[Bookwoman <bright@TENET.EDU>]

Hello Netters.  As you can see, this was originally posted on LM_NET!
This listserv is really a LMS' best friend!    Lynn

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 30 Jan 1996 17:38:33 -0600
From: Katie Bailey 904-676-1421 <BAILEYK@MAIL.FIRN.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list LM_NET <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Newgroups: list.lm_net
Subject: GEN: I LOVE YOU (corrected and ammended :) thank you all!

I'm sending the I LOVE YOU list once more, corrected, and with additions.
Please note additions of Lithuanian, Georgian, and Chinese.
Correction in Hebrew. One other addition that I can't remember.
It's been a busy week! :)
Thank you to all who sent these messages. As Linda Reed quoted:

  "A smile is the same in all languages."  :-)

This is a list of how to say I LOVE YOU in many different languages.
It was originally brought to my attention by
Pam Silva, a wonderful Spanish teacher at East Lake H.S. in
Palm Harbor, FL (silvap@mail.firn.edu) and then ammended by LM_NET members
several years in a row.  This seems to be the time to post it again.
If you have any additions or corrections please let me know and
do feel free to share it widely.  We downloaded it..brought it up in
a word processing program...enlarged the font..printed...cut...and
mounted the words with arrows pointing to the countries on a large
wall map which we use before Valentines Day.  I think it is something
that will interest all levels.

Katie Bailey (baileyk@mail.firn.edu)
Seabreeze High School
Daytona Beach, FL

How to say "I love you" in different languages:

 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 Ai 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 dost daram  (also, Asheghetam) <------
 Flemish         : Ik zie oe geerne
 Finnish         : Mina" rakastan sinua
 French          : Je t'aime
 Friesian        : Ik hou fan dei (sp?)
 Gaelic          : Ta gra agam ort
 Georgia (Soviet): meg-war-char shen (phonetic spelling)
 German          : Ich liebe Dich
 Greek           : S'AGAPO
 Hausa           : Ina sonki  _
 Hawaiian        : Aloha wau ia 'oe
 Hebrew          : aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA  (female to male)
                 : aNEE oHEIV otAKH    (male to female)
 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
 Latvian         : Es tevi milu
 Lao             : Khoi huk chau
 Lingala         : Nalingi yo
 Lithuanian      : AS TAVE MYLIU!
 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
 Paraguay (Guarani): Pronounciation is row high who (spelling..?)
 Persian         : Tora dost daram  (also, Asheghetam)  <------
 Pilipino        : Mahal Kita
                 : Iniibig Kita
 Polish          : Kocham Cie (Love ya)
                 : Ja cie 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
 Tahitian        : Here vau ia 'oe
 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