How do you say "I love You"

[Scott and Iryna 2]

Я очень люблю тебя = I very (much) love you. You can change the order around because of case. So "you" (тебя) can float around it is the object (receiver) of the love.

Is this true?? I was told that nobody would ever say Я очень люблю тебя, and would only say Я очень тебя люблю. Of course they would understand me if I said it, but it would not sound "correct" to them.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

If it's wrong, then my fiancée had better correct me! I have said it this way, but more often say "Я тебя люблю очень!" (I to you love much!)

Я очень люблю тебя = I very (much) love you. You can change the order around because of case. So "you" (тебя) can float around it is the object (receiver) of the love.

Is this true?? I was told that nobody would ever say Я очень люблю тебя, and would only say Я очень тебя люблю. Of course they would understand me if I said it, but it would not sound "correct" to them.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Te amo, bebe/ mi amor = (I love you, baby/ my love)

Yo tambien te amo (I love you too)- Took Justin a long time to learn that one!

Saludos,

Caro

[Bootylicious!! 2]

Me: I love you

Javi: Te amo but only if he's telling me. If he's talking to other people(family) he says, Te quiero.

[eekee 182]

If you do a google search with quotes, you get 22,800 results for я очень тебя люблю and 22,900 for я очень люблю тебя. Я тебя люблю очень gets 718 hits. Я люблю тебя очень gets 26,000.

As far as очень meaning only "very"... you can't really do a direct translation. it is kind of just an intensifier. You can convey the same meaning with так instead of очень.

If it's wrong, then my fiancée had better correct me! I have said it this way, but more often say "Я тебя люблю очень!" (I to you love much!)

Я очень люблю тебя = I very (much) love you. You can change the order around because of case. So "you" (тебя) can float around it is the object (receiver) of the love.

Is this true?? I was told that nobody would ever say Я очень люблю тебя, and would only say Я очень тебя люблю. Of course they would understand me if I said it, but it would not sound "correct" to them.

Edited April 12, 2008 by eekee

[Minya's wife 25]

Me: Szeretlek

Him: En is szeretlek

-P

[milimelo 4,853]

Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian: Volim te (voleem teh).

[sweetpink 1]

PHILIPPINES...

GIHIGUGMA KO IKAW= I love you

(BISAYA/CEBUANO)

GIHIGUGMA KO IKAW PAG-AYO = I love you very much

(BISAYA/CEBUANO)

[Scott and Iryna 2]

If it's wrong, then my fiancée had better correct me! I have said it this way, but more often say "Я тебя люблю очень!" (I to you love much!)

As far as очень meaning only "very"... you can't really do a direct translation. it is kind of just an intensifier. You can convey the same meaning with так instead of очень.

Another rule of grammar I really love about Russian... the one about how you shouldn't refer to yourself twice in the same sentence... I should not say "I love you with all my heart." The word "my" is improper here. Why? Because I already referred to myself with "I"! So I should say "I love you with all ones heart." Crazy... The same applies with "you/your", as in "Do you love me with all ones heart?"

[eekee 182]

Not quite... maybe it's stylistically preferable, but it's only truly incorrect in third person. This is because if you don't use свой, it sounds like there are two people in the sentence--"He loves her with all of his (someone else)'s heart." Свой isn't really "one." It works in sentences that don't have a subject, but usually when you make a statement where we would say "one" in english, it's done with ты. Свой really means "my, our, his, her, its, their" in the context that you're talking about --it's just to clarify that the person who is doing it is the same person as the subject, if that makes sense. This kind of trying to use English logic into Russian just doesn't work--you need to use Russian logic when you think about Russian. When you say Мы с Лизой ходили в школу каждый день, you're not saying "We with Liza went to school every day." You're really saying "Liza and I went to school every day"--it's just formulated and thought of differently in Russian.

If it's wrong, then my fiancée had better correct me! I have said it this way, but more often say "Я тебя люблю очень!" (I to you love much!)

As far as очень meaning only "very"... you can't really do a direct translation. it is kind of just an intensifier. You can convey the same meaning with так instead of очень.

Another rule of grammar I really love about Russian... the one about how you shouldn't refer to yourself twice in the same sentence... I should not say "I love you with all my heart." The word "my" is improper here. Why? Because I already referred to myself with "I"! So I should say "I love you with all ones heart." Crazy... The same applies with "you/your", as in "Do you love me with all ones heart?"

Edited April 13, 2008 by eekee

[45495 1]

flemisch (dutch) : ik zie je graag

[B'sA 0]

Dear VJers,

I am interested in knowing how people from different parts of the world say "I love you" in their native or mother

tongue.

Mine is " AHURUM GI NANYA " (Ibo Language - Eastern Part of Nigeria)

Te iubesc, romanian.

[panamania79 2]

Charles and Nessa have a VH1 kind of love. Maybe you can get your own reality show!

Bobby Larios and Niurka Marcos come to my mind.

[panamania79 2]

Dear VJers,

I am interested in knowing how people from different parts of the world say "I love you" in their native or mother

tongue.

Mine is " AHURUM GI NANYA " (Ibo Language - Eastern Part of Nigeria)

I'm American so I say-I love you

My fiance says-Te quiero mucho mi amor,mi cielo,mi corazon.

[panamania79 2]

nothing says i love you like a bj

nessa I agree with you!

Yeah,but what if the person doesn't know how to do it right ?