How Do YOU Say Love?

How Do YOU Say Love?

January 29th, 2009 @ 2:50 pm by Mrs. Champagne
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We’ve got this idea, and like most of my ideas, I’ll need the hive’s help to pull it off. Instead of having the traditional table numbers, we’d like to add a bit of romance to the theme. So this is what we’re thinking: Each table will be named after the word “love” in a foreign language.

Here’s the list we’ve got so far:

How Do YOU Say Love? : wedding decor reception vail Love

If you look at this list, you might see a problem. First, most of the traditional romance languages are very similar: “amore“, “amor“, “amour”. So that leaves us only one choice out of those. Secondly, how will guests realize that their table number really means “love” if they can’t pronounce it or decipher the language characters?

We could have the table numbers have an explanation on them, suggested by Documents and Designs Custom Stationery. Here’s an example of a few table numbers:

How Do YOU Say Love? : wedding decor reception vail C1 c1

How Do YOU Say Love? : wedding decor reception vail C2 c2

How Do YOU Say Love? : wedding decor reception vail C3 c3

Champ’s idea is to change things around so that not every table necessarily has to mean “love”.

Are there any foreign languages that have simple words for “marriage”, “commitment”, “I love you”, or “adoration”? What do you think we should do?

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42 Responses to “How Do YOU Say Love?”

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Bee

Miss Bruschetta (message) 5,565 posts, Bee Keeper

I really *love* (hehe) the idea you presented!

1/29/09 @ 2:57 pm (reply)

Guest

kpenn

For Hungarian I would use Szeretlek which means “I love you”.
It’s pronounced Se-rat-leck. (well the a in “rat” isn’t a hard A… it’s hard to explain) (and yes, I realized that probably isn’t helpful!)

1/29/09 @ 3:01 pm (reply)

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emagnus10 (message) 110 posts, Blushing bee

I know this is a long comment but here is a list of how you say “I Love You” in like a gazillion languages. Maybe one of them will help.

English: I love you
Afrikaans: Ek het jou lief
Albanian: Te dua
Arabic: Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic: Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian: Yes kez sirumen
Bambara: M’bi fe
Bangla: Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
Belarusian: Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya: Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian: Obicham te
Cambodian: Soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese Chinese: Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan: T’estimo
Cheyenne: Ne mohotatse
Chichewa: Ndimakukonda
Corsican: Ti tengu caru (to male)
Creol: Mi aime jou
Croatian: Volim te
Czech: Miluji te
Danish: Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch: Ik hou van jou
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
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 wau ia oi
Hebrew: Ani ohev otah (to female)
Hebrew: Ani ohev et otha (to male)
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
Kannada: Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan: Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili: Nakupenda
Konkani: Tu magel moga cho
Korean: Sarang Heyo
Latin: Te amo
Latvian: Es tevi miilu
Lebanese: Bahibak
Lithuanian: Tave myliu
Malay: Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam: Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Mandarin Chinese: Wo ai ni
Marathi: Me tula prem karto
Mohawk: Kanbhik
Moroccan: Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl: Ni mits neki
Navaho: Ayor anosh’ni
Norwegian: Jeg Elsker 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: ,\,,/ (position of fingers)
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
Tagalog: Mahal kita
Taiwanese: Wa ga ei li
Tahitian: Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil: Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu: Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai: Chan rak khun (to male)
Thai: Phom rak khun (to female)
Turkish: Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian: Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu: mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese: Anh ye^u em (to female)
Vietnamese: Em ye^u anh (to male)
Welsh: ‘Rwy’n dy garu
Yiddish: Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba: Mo ni fe

1/29/09 @ 3:05 pm (reply)

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cfitz621 (message) 169 posts, Blushing bee

Is there a particular culture or cultures that you’d like to focus on? Maybe then all table could be the same language, just different words (happiness, married, union, etc).

But that might get to theme-y and people might wonder why, all of sudden, there are signs in gaelic.

Which means I’m no help either, oops

1/29/09 @ 3:06 pm (reply)

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emagnus10 (message) 110 posts, Blushing bee

I knew that list would come in handy one day. I’ve had it for 8 years!

1/29/09 @ 3:06 pm (reply)

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JaymeLyn (message) 95 posts, Worker bee

i would add a sign above the escort cards, saying something like “Love is the Universal Language” or something similar and then another sign with language name and word–an index.

1/29/09 @ 3:12 pm (reply)

Bee

Miss Bear Cub (message) 1,566 posts, Bumble bee

@emagnus10: haha I love how you have pig latin in there

1/29/09 @ 3:13 pm (reply)

Hostess

HumarockBride (message) 1,542 posts, Bumble bee

I like JaymeLyn’s idea — put a sign on the escort table and then maybe on the back of the table sign you can put the explanation or the language it comes from.

1/29/09 @ 3:19 pm (reply)

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jennred782

I think if you put the country the language is from the fact that the romantic language all have similar words for love won’t make a difference. Besides I think emagnus just solved your prob.

1/29/09 @ 3:28 pm (reply)

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Becky

The word for love (as in the concept, not the verb) in Hebrew is Ahava, and it looks like this: אהבה

I don’t recognize the characters you have for love in Chinese, but the character is the same in Japanese and Chinese.

1/29/09 @ 3:42 pm (reply)

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Guest

Hi Miss Champagne, It’s a really cute idea. The list above eliminates the problems with characters but it isn’t totally accurate so I would double check on the ones you want to use. And, it may sound weird, but I could see it potentially offending some people — I’m first generation American and I can just hear what my parents’ generation would be saying if they had to sit at a table related to certain countries

1/29/09 @ 3:45 pm (reply)

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Bee

Mrs. Avocado (message) 1,542 posts, Bumble bee

The Polish you have on your list isn’t right. I don’t actually know what it says, but it’s not how Mr. Avo says I love you to me. Breezy can clarify if I’m wrong, but I love you is Kochamcie, from what I understand.
But actually I understand nothing so I’m probably not helping.
I thought about doing something like this as well!

1/29/09 @ 3:46 pm (reply)

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amy77jc (message) 276 posts, Helper bee

The chinese Love characters above, the second one is the simplified version of what is shown in the japanese love character area. In fact, the Korean Hanja (chinese characters) is the same as chinese and japanese for love.

1/29/09 @ 3:48 pm (reply)

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emagnus10 (message) 110 posts, Blushing bee

If anyone does find an incorrect translation let me know the correct one so I can update my list to be correct. Thanks!!!

1/29/09 @ 3:48 pm (reply)

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misspuptor

The Korean love should be 사랑
not 애정- it means tenderness, and affection,, which works too i guess

1/29/09 @ 4:01 pm (reply)

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Bee

Mrs. Sea Breeze (message) 972 posts, Busy bee

@Mrs. Avocado: Both are right - kocham cie is just shorter and less formal-ish, if that makes sense.

I think this is a really cute idea. Maybe you could put the phrase on one side and the meaning on the other? Turn it into a bit of a dinner game thing.

1/29/09 @ 4:09 pm (reply)

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