# Teach Me How To Say "I Love You" In Other Languages

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-how-to-say-i-love-you-in-other-languages/660082>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 3, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-how-to-say-i-love-you-in-other-languages/660082 "2013-06-03T23:58:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-how-to-say-i-love-you-in-other-languages/660082/61 "2013-06-11T16:02:22Z")

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> [@Kaio](#):
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> [Obligatory.](http://youtu.be/JzNLUaGtaCU) 😃

I’ll see your Sandy Patty and raise you Paul and Storm’s “[The International Language](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8MLVrqCKI)”

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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-how-to-say-i-love-you-in-other-languages/660082/62 "2013-06-15T09:37:48Z")

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> [@YogSosoth](#):
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> Why does everything in German sound like a curse? 😃

Because our curse words come from that part of our language.

Our polite words come from the French parent of our language.

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**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-how-to-say-i-love-you-in-other-languages/660082/63 "2013-06-15T16:19:51Z")

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> [@CookingWithGas](#):
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> This one from that link
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> Ti voglio bene. (_I love you a lot._)
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> may not be correct. I dated an Italian for a while and she told me that is an expression of friendship rather than romantic love. It literally translates as, “I wish you well.”

No it doesn’t. It means “I want you well” (as in: I want you a lot, I want you a good deal). [Link](http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=4535).

BTW the transliteration on the Russian я люблю тебя in the OP is a bit sketchy. _Ya lyublyu’ tyebya’_ (stress on the last syllables) is more acceptable, although it is trough that the ‘ye’ in tyebya is pronounced as an ‘ee’ sound, ie much like the ‘i’ (и) in Russian

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