LOVE IS A VERB

Valentine’s day , is mostly a season of decadence to me and for the pious a season more like Christmas ( without the cheer) charitable giving and exchange of gifts and all. To most its lovers day the day I love you is born and also buried.

 How do you translate a feeling which can make one sacrifice the only thing he’s got into a sentence.

 I insist I love you is a sentence which should end with an apostrophe or question mark, a comma sets it back and a full stop limits it.

I googled how to say I love you in various languages but my language is not on the list (kalabari so sad). we don’t have a direct translation for I love you, we can say ( I ibelema ) I like you , but the word love is not available, also in tiv language there’s no direct translation I googled it ( guys, south- south peeps and middle belters we need to put our language on the internet). You can imagine my annoyance in seeing I love you in Yoruba (Yoruba folks no vex) you guys are the founding fathers of yahoo in Nigeria so I know.

 I’m attaching the list for your perusal add your language if it’s possible. Love is a verb to me because as a noun it’s simply like hi or bye, I love you is an action.

 For instance, I love you because you mean the world to me (in action I can do anything to make sure you remain well and at peace in this world)

 I love you (means I don’t know how to act around you? no, it means I care for you deeply and I want you to know I will be there),

 I love you my son (I will always take care of you),

 I love you, Martha (in all the unpleasantness in the world I will always be pleasant to you)

 I love you is a word said after a commitment has been made in a man’s heart ( man in this case symbolizes humans)

 I choose to love you Stefan (means despite all the other hot guys willing to die for my safety I prefer yours (vampire diaries addict)

 I love you (it doesn’t mean I want to own you but I enjoy being a part of you)

 I love you bloggers (means please don’t stop reading or writing as the case maybe. I love you, folks (till my dying breathe we are joined).

 I love you sha!!! I wonder what that means……………..( fill in the blank)

The list of how to say I love you in different languages in the world! Enjoy.

Afrikaans -	Eke 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 baashi
Belarusian -	Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya -	Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bosnian -	Volim te
Bulgarian -	Obicham te
Cambodian -	Bung Srorlagn Oun (to female) Oun Srorlagn Bung (to male)
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
Elmer Fudd -	I wove you
English -	I love you
Esperanto -	Mi amas vin
Estonian -	Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian -	Ewedishalehu : male/female to female Ewedihalehu: male/female to male.
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 -	Hu tumney prem karu chu
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 hai
Hmong -	Kuv hlub koj
Hopi -	Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian -	Szeretlek
Icelandic -	Ég elska þig
Ilonggo -	Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian -	Saya cinta padamu
Inuit -	Negligevapse
Irish -	Taim I' ngra leat
Italian -	Ti amo
Japanese -	Aishiteru
Kannada -	Naa ninna preetisuve
Kapampangan -	Kaluguran daka
Kikongo -	Muke zolaka nge
Kiswahili -	Nakupenda
Konkani -	Tu magel moga cho
Korean -	Sarang Heyo
Latin -	Te amo
Latvian -	Es tevi miilu
Lebanese -	Bahibak
Lingala -	Nalingi yo
Lithuanian -	Tave myliu
Macedonian	Te Sakam
Malay -	Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam -	Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Maltese -	Inhobbok
Mandarin Chinese -	Wo ai ni
Marathi -	Me tula prem karto
Mohawk -	Kanbhik
Moroccan -	Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl -	Ni mits neki
Navaho -	Ayor anosh'ni
Nepali -	Ma Timilai Maya Garchhu
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 Cie
Portuguese -	Amo-te
Romanian -	TE IUBESC
Roman Numerals -	333
Russian -	Ya tebya liubliu
Rwanda -	Ndagukunda
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
Surinam-	Mi lobi joe
Swahili -	Ninapenda wewe
Swedish -	Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German -	Ig liebe di
Tajik	Man turo Dust Doram
Tagalog -	Mahal kita
Taiwanese -	Wa ga ei li
Tahitian -	Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil -	Naan unnai kathalikiraen
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
Zimbabwe -	Ndinokuda