Who hasn't heard the term Je'Taime, most of us would know that it's French, so how many know what it means? Yes alright I know we're all a rather cultured lot and we know it means 'I Love You'.
Those three words, 'I love you' can mean so much to many people, after all who doesn't want to feel loved and even better if you hear those three little words spoken to you.
'I love you' has a very different meaning depending of who speaks the words to you. Sometimes it can feel threatening and sometimes it can feel so natural.
Take the words spoken by a young child, such an unconditional love, just a pure expression of the feeling they have for you as the parent, their most valued and special person in their whole world. You're right up there on that pedestal, a shining light that means the absolute world to them. Those words almost melt your heart when such an innocent and beautiful little soul, expresses their love for you, bringing a smile to your face and warmth to your heart like no other, the purest of love. Nothing asked and nothing expected, unconditional love.
And there's that love shared between two very special friends, girlfriends. When we say I love you, we mean it, it's also a love that is not questioned, it's non threatening, it just is. I know when I tell one of my special soul sisters that I love them, I'm saying I honour your friendship, I embrace the way I feel in your company, I trust you absolutely and I will be there for you and I know you will be there for me through good times and bad.
'I love you', spoke by an adult child brings yet again another dimension. When I hear those words spoken today by my children, I know they truly value me, they're saying, thanks Mum for all you've done for me. After all the ups and downs of life, the times I've had to pull rank, the times I've had to take the 'tough love' stance, the times I've been hurt, miffed and confused, they all are part of the love I share with my children today. They are my world, they mean to world to me and they will always hold a special place in my heart. They've made their stamp and that stamp is indelible, blurred at times but indelible all the same :)
And then there's the love in an intimate relationship and what a minefield that can be at times. How important is it to be told you're loved? Is it enough to know or to feel the love? Can that perception be a total misinterpretation of what really is in reality.
To hear those three words, I love you often is the signal that we're into something serious here, we've crossed the threshold of no return. And shock horror what if one says it and the other doesn't respond in the same way and that really can set a cat amongst the pigeons in some relationships. Relationships that might have appeared to be sailing along happily, can change in that one moment, sometimes for good and sometimes for the worse.
I guess it all comes down to our perception, our needs, our wants, our desires and our past experiences along our journey of life. Interpretation, having a good grasp on reality and working through our baggage to get to a point where we can choose love rather than be a slave to love is what's important.
For some it's important to be told they're loved, some need to be shown they're loved and for others it will simple be enough to just feel loved.
There's something about the words Je'Taime, it conjures up all sorts of romantic images but wait there's more....have a look at these....
How to say
I Love You in 100 Languages
Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian - Yes kez sirumem
Bambara - M'bi fe
Bengali - Ami tomake bhalobashi (pronounced: Amee toe-ma-kee bhalo-bashee)
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Catalan - T'estimo
Cherokee - Tsi ge yu i
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
Chichewa - Ndimakukonda
Chinese
Cantonese - Ngo oiy ney a
Mandarin - Wo ai ni
Comanche - U kamakutu nu
(pronounced oo----ka-ma-koo-too-----nu) -- Thx Tony Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)
Cree - Kisakihitin
Creol - Mi aime jou
Croatian - Volim te
Czech - Miluji te
Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch - Ik hou van jou
Elvish - Amin mela lle (from The Lord of The Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Esperanto - Mi amas vin
Estonian - Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian - Afgreki'
Faroese - Eg elski teg
Farsi - Doset daram
Filipino - Mahal kita
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
French - Je t'aime, Je t'adore
Frisian - Ik hald fan dy
Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort
Georgian - Mikvarhar
German - Ich liebe dich
Greek - S'agapo
Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian - Aloha Au Ia`oe
Hebrew
To female - "ani ohev otach" (said by male) "ohevet Otach" (said by female)
To male - "ani ohev otcha" (said by male) "Ohevet ot'cha" (said by female)
Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian - Szeretlek
Icelandic - Eg elska tig
Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
Inuit - Negligevapse
Irish - Taim i' ngra leat
Italian - Ti amo
Japanese - Aishiteru or Anata ga daisuki desu
Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili - Nakupenda
Konkani - Tu magel moga cho
Korean - Sarang Heyo or Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida
Latin - Te amo
Latvian - Es tevi miilu
Lebanese - Bahibak
Lithuanian - Tave myliu
Luxembourgeois - Ech hun dech gaer
Macedonian - Te Sakam
Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Maltese - Inhobbok
Marathi - Me tula prem karto
Mohawk - Kanbhik
Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl - Ni mits neki
Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele - Niyakutanda
Norwegian
Bokmaal - Jeg elsker deg
Nyonrsk - Eg elskar deg
Pandacan - Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan - Inaru Taka
Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo
Persian - Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish - Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese - Eu te amo
Romanian - Te iubesc
Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian - Volim te
Setswana - Ke a go rata
Sign Language - ,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing 'I Love You')
Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux - Techihhila
Slovak - Lu`bim ta
Slovenian - Ljubim te
Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili - Ninapenda wewe
Swedish - Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di
Surinam - Mi lobi joe
Tagalog - Mahal kita
Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li
Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai
To female - Phom rak khun
To male - Chan rak khun
Informal - Rak te
Tunisian - Ha eh bak
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese
To female - Anh ye^u em
To male - Em ye^u anh
Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu di
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba - Mo ni fe
Zazi - Ezhele hezdege
Zulu - Mena tanda wena or Ngiyakuthanda Thanks Marty!
Zuni - Tom ho' ichema
So there you have it, 'I love you' can be said is a multitude of ways and in a multitude of languages, it's all up to us in the end anyway. :)
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