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mick33
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 Message 49 of 58
30 September 2010 at 8:28pm | IP Logged 
Taalmeester wrote:
mick33 wrote:
In Afrikaans you could say, "Ek het lief vir jou" or "Ek hou van jou". I think the first phrase is stronger.


Not exactly, 'Ek is lief vir jou'. Perhaps you were looking for 'Ek het jou lief', which is perfectly valid.:)

Also, 'Ek bemin jou.'
I'm actually a little embarrassed about this as I should have caught those mistakes when I posted here before. I had meant to write "Ek het jou lief".
Mikry wrote:
mick33 wrote:
In Afrikaans you could say, "Ek het lief vir jou" or "Ek hou van jou". I think the first phrase is stronger.


I think you're learning Afrikaans from some very archaic sources! :P
"Ek hou van jou" comes from the Dutch equivalent 'ik hou van jou', but doesn't have the same meaning at all. 'hou' has taken on the meaning of 'to like' in Afrikaans, as opposed to Dutch where it can mean 'to love'.

Thus if you say 'Ek hou van jou', it would mean 'I like you'. It sounds very 'off' to the native ear. :P
I thought I knew that, but I must have confused Afrikaans with Dutch. Thanks to both of you for pointing out my mistakes.

Edited by mick33 on 30 September 2010 at 8:32pm
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strikingstar
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 Message 50 of 58
01 October 2010 at 9:18am | IP Logged 
In Swahili:

Ninakupenda

Yes, one word. Swahili is amazing. You can say full sentences with just one word.
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germito
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 Message 51 of 58
03 October 2010 at 5:56pm | IP Logged 
In Galician:

Ámote

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Taalmeester
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 Message 52 of 58
03 October 2010 at 10:56pm | IP Logged 
@Mick

Always a pleasure! Feel free to ask anything anytime! :)
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El Forastero
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 Message 53 of 58
12 October 2010 at 5:03pm | IP Logged 
In Spanish, or at least in colombia, "te amo" expres a deeper and stronger feeling than "Te quiero". There are a lot of romantic songs about that, and that's not unusual that a lover argue his partner saying "tú no me amas, solamente me quieres"


In order to contribuite to the topic, this is the wayuunaiki translation:

Aisü pia tapüla: Said to a women
Aishi pia tapüla: Sait to a man
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Teango
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 Message 54 of 58
14 October 2010 at 10:08am | IP Logged 
In Irish: Tá grá agam duit!
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Ojorolla
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 Message 55 of 58
01 June 2011 at 4:48pm | IP Logged 
Ich liebe dich... Uh.
I remember back in university one female professor of mine told me what happened when she was traveling in Hungary. She was in a group of 4~5 students, they contacted some local people and ended up communicating with them not in English but in German, as they (locals) were pretty good at it. After some talk, a sixty some year old woman told her she would show her a pool. As she was the only one who had a swimming suit in the group, she got apart from her friends and went to the pool with the old person. After they got in the water, the old woman embraced her and whispered to her ear : 'Ich liebe dich!'. She didn't understand what was going on at the time, so she just said she would go to the bus station to the old woman, and left. End of the story. Scary place.

Okay... In Korean you can say: Sa-rang-hae-yo. Or Sa-rang-ham-ni-da.

Edited by Ojorolla on 02 June 2011 at 12:44pm
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Miegamice
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 Message 56 of 58
05 June 2011 at 9:59pm | IP Logged 
In Latvian: Es tevi mīlu


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