Bridal Shower Game: I Love You Around the World

All 56 phrases

Well-known languages 23

Σ' αγαπώ Greek, in Latin letters s' agapó.
Я тебя люблю Russian.
אני אוהב אותך Hebrew, as a man says it to a woman.
أحبك Arabic.
मैं तुमसे प्यार करता हूँ Hindi, as a man says it.
ฉันรักคุณ Thai, as a woman says it: chǎn rák kun.
愛してる Japanese, in Latin letters ai-shiteru.
我愛你 Chinese, in Mandarin wǒ ài nǐ.
사랑해 Korean, in Latin letters saranghae.
Anh yêu em Vietnamese, as a man says it to a woman.
Eu te amo Portuguese, as Brazil says it.
Ich liebe dich German.
Ik hou van jou Dutch.
Jag älskar dig Swedish.
Je t'aime French.
Jeg elsker deg Norwegian.
Kocham cię Polish.
Mahal kita Tagalog, of the Philippines.
Ninakupenda Swahili, of Tanzania and Kenya.
Seni seviyorum Turkish.
Tá grá agam duit Irish: literally, I have love for you.
Te quiero Spanish. Te amo is said too.
Ti amo Italian.

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Harder languages 33

Би чамд хайртай Mongolian, in Cyrillic letters.
Обичам те Bulgarian, in Latin letters obíčam te.
Я тебе кохаю Ukrainian.
איך האָב דיך ליב Yiddish, in Latin letters ikh hob dikh lib.
Aku cinta kamu Indonesian.
Aš tave myliu Lithuanian.
Ech hunn dech gär Luxembourgish.
Ég elska þig Icelandic.
Ek het jou lief Afrikaans, of South Africa and Namibia.
Es tevi mīlu Latvian.
Gihigugma ko ikaw Cebuano, of the southern Philippines.
Jeg elsker dig Danish. Norwegian ends in deg, not dig.
Kuv hlub koj Hmong, of China, Vietnam, Thailand and Laos.
Ljubim te Slovene.
Ľúbim ťa Slovak.
Ma armastan sind Estonian.
Maite zaitut Basque, of northern Spain and nearby France.
Men seni sevaman Uzbek.
Mi amas vin Esperanto, a constructed language of 1887.
Mi lavim yu Tok Pisin, of Papua New Guinea.
Miluji tě Czech.
Minä rakastan sinua Finnish.
Ndinokuda Shona, of Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Ndiyakuthanda Xhosa, of South Africa.
Ngiyakuthanda Zulu, of South Africa.
Rwy'n dy garu di Welsh.
Szeretlek Hungarian.
T'estimo Catalan, of eastern Spain and Andorra.
Të dua Albanian.
Te iubesc Romanian.
Tha gaol agam ort Scottish Gaelic.
Ua here vau ia oe Tahitian, of French Polynesia.
Volim te Croatian. Bosnian and Serbian say it too.

How this list was compiled: 56 ways to say I love you, one language each. The list was made for this page; nothing was copied from another game sheet. Every phrase was read on 2026-10-12 in two references and is printed only where both give the same words: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary entry I love you (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/I_love_you, text under CC BY-SA 4.0) and Omniglot's phrase list I love you in many languages (https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/iloveyou.htm). Capital letters, stress marks, vowel points, and the shape and spacing of apostrophes were set aside. Three rows match less closely. Wiktionary puts the pronoun of the Portuguese row in brackets; the Cambridge Dictionary's English–Portuguese entry for love (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-portuguese/love) prints the row as it stands here. Omniglot prints the Japanese row with a closing particle, and writes the last Hindi word with a short vowel sign where its own Latin spelling and Cambridge's English–Hindi entry have the long one printed here. Languages on which the two references differ were left out, Hawaiian and Māori among them. Who says a phrase to whom is as both references mark it, and a Latin spelling is given only where both spell the row alike, in Wiktionary's form. Where a language is spoken is from the opening of its English Wikipedia article, read the same day (CC BY-SA 4.0). Which languages count as well known is this site's own call, and the rules are one way to play a folk game. Licence: own work

How it works

This bridal shower game prints I love you in different languages, one to a row, from Je t'aime to Mahal kita. Guests write which language each row is, and the host holds the answers.

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Print the guest sheet and the key

Press Print this list and leave every answer covered: a covered answer prints as the line a guest writes on, and the languages print on a second page for the host. The sheet opens on well-known languages; the box under the button changes it to harder ones or to all 56.

Play and score

Hand each guest a sheet and a pen, and call time when most pens have stopped. Read the key aloud, row by row. One point for each language named.

For an easier game, read the answers aloud in mixed order before anyone writes, so guests match a language to each row.
A language the couple's families speak makes the best row. Press Show all 23, then take rows away with × until 15 are left.

Questions and answers

How do you play the bridal shower game I love you in different languages?

Every guest gets the same sheet: I love you in 15 languages, one to a row. Guests write the language on the line under each row, the host reads the key aloud, and the sheet with the most right answers wins.

Is there an answer key for I love you around the world?

Yes. The languages print on a second page for the host, in the order of the sheet, and Show all answers opens them on the screen. A sheet printed somewhere else has other phrases, so this key will not fit it.

How do you say I love you in different languages?

French is Je t'aime, Italian Ti amo, German Ich liebe dich, Tagalog Mahal kita and Turkish Seni seviyorum. Each phrase here stands in two references, Wiktionary and Omniglot, and a language on which the two differ was left out.

Are Russian, Chinese and Arabic printed in their own letters?

Yes. Greek, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi and Thai are printed in their own writing, which is part of the puzzle. The other well-known rows use the Latin alphabet.