Form/Process: This week I took the time to translate the phrase/sentence "I love you" in 103 main languages and dialects across the world.
Content: This research informs my current practice in looking at the language of love. I'm trying to understand the different meaning and weight of words when translated in different languages. At the moment, this is still a work in progress as I have not decided how I wanted to execute this yet.
Afrikaans
Ek is lief vir jou
Albanian
Të dua
Amharic
inē iwedachiḫwalehu
Arabic
iinaa ahbk
Armenian
yes sirum yem k’ez
Azerbaijani
Mən səni sevirəm
Bangla
Āmi tōmākē bhālōbāsi
Basque
Maite zaitut
Belarusian
JA liubliu ciabie
Bosnian
Volim te
Bulgarian
Obicham te
Burmese
ngarsai sainthoet kohkyit
Catalan
T'estimo
Cebuano
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Chinese
Wǒ ài nǐ
Corsican
Ti amo
Croatian
Volim te
Czech
Miluju tě
Danish
Jeg elsker dig
Dutch
Ik hou van je
English
I love you
Esperanto
Mi amas vin
Estonian
Ma armastan sind
Filipino
Mahal kita
Finnish
Rakastan sinua
French
Je t'aime
Galician
Quérote
Georgian
me shen miq’varkhar
German
Ich liebe dich
Greek
S 'agapó
Gujarati
Huṁ tamanē prēma karuṁ chuṁ
Haitian Creole
Mwen renmen ou
Hausa
Ina son ku
Hawaiian
Aloha au iāʻoe
Hebrew
אני אוהב אותך
Hindi
aaee lav yoo
Hmong
Kuv hlub koj
Hungarian
Szeretlek
Icelandic
Ég elska þig
Igbo
Ahụrụ m gị n'anya
Indonesian
Aku cinta kamu
Irish
Is breá liom tú
Italian
Ti amo
Japanese
Watashi wa anata o aishiteimasu
Javanese
Aku tresna sampeyan
Kannada
Nānu ninnannu prītisuttēne
Kazakh
Men seni süyemin
Khmer
khnhom sraleanh anak
Korean
naneun neoleul salanghae
Kurdish
Ez ji te hez dikim
Kyrgyz
Men seni süyöm
Lao
khony hak chao
Latin
Te amo
Latvian
Es tevi mīlu
Lithuanian
Aš tave myliu
Luxembourgish
Ech hunn dech gär
Macedonian
Te sakam
Malagasy
Tiako ianao
Malay
Saya sayang awak
Malayalam
ñān ninne snēhikkunnu
Maltese
Inħobbok
Maori
Aroha ahau ki a koe
Marathi
Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō
Mongolian
Bi chamd khairtai
Nepali
Ma timīlā'ī māyā garchu
Norwegian
Jeg elsker deg
Nyanja
Ndimakukondani
Persian
من تو را دوست دارم
Polish
Kocham cię
Portuguese
Eu te amo
Punjabi
Maiṁ tuhānū pi'āra karadā hāṁ
Romanian
Te iubesc
Russian
YA tebya lyublyu
Samoan
Ou te alofa ia te oe
Scottish Gaelic
Tha gaol agam ort
Serbian
Volim te
Shona
Ndinokuda
Sindhi
مون کي توسان پيار آهي
Sinhala
mama oyāṭa ādareyi
Slovak
Milujem ťa
Slovenian
Ljubim te
Somali
Waan ku jeclahay
Southern Sotho
Kea u rata
Spanish
Te amo a ti
Sundanese
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
Swahili
Ninakupenda
Swedish
Jag älskar dig
Tajik
Man turo dūst medoram
Tamil
Nāṉ uṉṉai nēcikkiṟēṉ
Telugu
Nēnu ninnu prēmistunnānu
Thai
C̄hạn rạk khuṇ
Turkish
Seni seviyorum
Ukranian
YA lyublyu tebe
Urdu
میں تم سے پیار کرتا ہوں
Uzbek
Men sizni yaxshi ko'raman
Vietnamese
Tôi yêu bạn
Welsh
Rwyf wrth fy modd i chi
Western Frisian
Ik hâld fan dy
Xhosa
Ndiyakuthanda
Yiddish
ikh libe ir
Yoruba
Mo nifẹ rẹ
Zulu
Ngiyakuthanda
