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Tomii515
May 12, 2006, 06:54
is this "I love you" cause my friend atr school speaks Chinese, and I was lookign in a dictionary and the pronouncing things sound the same as she said it:

予爱你

Minty
May 12, 2006, 07:12
Well you got the love you bit right, but not the word I.

Should read:I love you:我愛你

Chinese Pinyin: wo3 ai4 ni3

Tomii515
May 12, 2006, 07:25
whats with the 3 and 4 and 3 and trhe #'s after each word?

yukio_michael
May 12, 2006, 07:35
^^ I'm guessing the tonality or pitch of the phoneme, and are you going to tell a girl that you love her!? That's pretty adventerous! ;)

Tomii515
May 12, 2006, 07:39
^^ I'm guessing the tonality or pitch of the phoneme, and are you going to tell a girl that you love her!? That's pretty adventerous! ;)


lol, no. My friend, who speaks Chinese, told me how to say it. When I saw the words, it sounded formiliar.

JimmySeal
May 12, 2006, 08:40
They're tones. 3 is a dipping, down then up tone. 4 is a sharply falling tone.

justin9213
May 27, 2006, 13:52
我 爱 你
wo ai ni
I love you

probably,"予" is I in wu or cantanese

dreamer
May 28, 2006, 02:23
Hum...even in cantonese texts I see 我 ...

fin1990
Jun 18, 2006, 20:27
我 爱 你
wo ai ni
I love you
probably,"予" is I in wu or cantanese
I speak cantonese.
"予" doesn't mean "I"
"予" , as I know , has a same pronunciation with "汝"
and "汝" is a old fanshion chinese which mean "you".
It just like Shakespeare words in English. It is a very old fanshion Chinese that people no longer use in daily life.

Ayaka Yukihiro
Jun 18, 2006, 20:51
Hey all of you... What happened with I Love You in Chinese(Wo ai ni)?

huayue
Jun 19, 2006, 12:26
ye ~我爱你...(wo ai ni)
happiness~^_______^

Cue
Jun 19, 2006, 13:37
This thread is awesome!
yeah, huayue, I'm starting to feel so happy too, to see everyone says "I love you"... xD

hey, you guys, "Wo ai niiiii", too~ xD
(how do you say, "i love you too" in chinese??)

Besides, I also want to hear it in other languages! (...then would it be off topic??)

Q

Glenn
Jun 19, 2006, 13:45
I'm going to guess it's 我也愛你. How close did I come?

Cue
Jun 19, 2006, 13:57
wow, cool! Thanks, Glenn.
...but..uh.. how do you pronounce 也? ya? -_-;

Q

Glenn
Jun 19, 2006, 13:59


I should say that I'm not sure it's right, by the way.

huayue
Jun 19, 2006, 14:02
you are right~Glenn

Glenn
Jun 19, 2006, 14:07
Cool! Thanks for confirming it so quickly, huayue!

How do you write your name, anyway? 華約? (That's a wild guess :blush:)

huayue
Jun 19, 2006, 14:10
not at all~^_^
huayue it means "花月"(花好月圆)

Glenn
Jun 19, 2006, 14:36
Oh, alright. Thanks again! :bow:

Cue
Jun 19, 2006, 18:27
yeah, thank you for your help, Glenn and huayue!

Btw, huayue, your name and avatar are SO lovely!!
Wo ai... them! xD


Q

huayue
Jun 19, 2006, 18:32
yeah, thank you for your help, Glenn and huayue!
Btw, huayue, your name and avatar are SO lovely!!
Wo ai... them! xD
Q
:wave: really?~~thanx Cue,your avatar is very cute ,and i like it too~!:rose:
i am glad to help everyone who wants to learn chinese...and could you teach me japanese,please?:souka: :-)
我爱你们(wo ai ni men)

Glenn
Jun 20, 2006, 03:04
This thread is making me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :love::D

我們也愛你,花月小姐! (If I can be so bold as to speak for everyone :blush:)

huayue
Jun 20, 2006, 14:05
This thread is making me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :love::D

我們也愛你,花月小姐! (If I can be so bold as to speak for everyone :blush:)
thanks ...Glenn your chinese is so good~!better than my English >_<:wave:

Glenn
Jun 20, 2006, 14:11
No, no. That's about all I can say. I think your English is way better than my Chinese. :blush:

warakawa
Jun 22, 2006, 01:34
wow, everyone on this site is so humble, unlike the gaming site where everyone flame each other.

Cue
Jun 22, 2006, 02:09
wow, everyone on this site is so humble....
heheh~...
That's one of the things I like about this forum, actually...
Culture shock...?^^;

ricecake
Jun 22, 2006, 02:41
not at all~^_^
huayue it means "花月"(花好月圆)

That's an awesome name for a gal,it literately means " lovely flowers full moon " LOVELY FLOWERS under the FULL MOON.

By the way,my Chinese first name is Kanji word for LOVE with the Chinese character FEMALE/GIRL to the left of it.My pop was quite creative naming me,I haven't met any Chinese with this " unique " name to this day.

Aiko is my Japanese romaji spelling.

Glenn
Jun 22, 2006, 02:58
愛子? When you said "love" and "girl" I thought 愛女.

ricecake
Jun 22, 2006, 03:05
愛子?

When you said "love" and "girl" I thought 愛女.



Yeah,that's my Japanese name in Kanji.

My Chinese name has these two lovely characters,FEMALE/GIRL first then LOVE.

Both me and sis have the FEMALE/GIRL character to our name,hers is FEMALE/GIRL SWALLOW ( bird ).

Glenn
Jun 22, 2006, 03:24
So is your name Zǐ&#224;i (子愛), and your sister's Zǐyān (子燕)?

ricecake
Jun 22, 2006, 07:01
So is your name Zǐ&agrave;i (子愛), and your sister's Zǐyān (子燕)?



No ... No ...

This Kanji character means " child/boy " in Chinese oppose to " ko " for Japanese,use FEMALE/GIRL instead.

You got my sis's first name ( swallow ) right.

We write it as ONE WORD.

huayue
Jun 22, 2006, 13:01
That's an awesome name for a gal,it literately means " lovely flowers full moon " LOVELY FLOWERS under the FULL MOON.
By the way,my Chinese first name is Kanji word for LOVE with the Chinese character FEMALE/GIRL to the left of it.My pop was quite creative naming me,I haven't met any Chinese with this " unique " name to this day.
Aiko is my Japanese romaji spelling.
thank you
ye...ricecake..i think i like your chinese name ..it is lovely and
meaningful...:souka: :wave:

Glenn
Jun 22, 2006, 13:43
女愛 (Nǚ&#224;i)?

I thought I was writing it as one word.

4321go
Jun 22, 2006, 15:00
女愛 (Nǚ&agrave;i)?

I thought I was writing it as one word.
yes , '女愛' write in one character is 媛? often used in girl's name.

Glenn
Jun 22, 2006, 15:18
Oh, alright. That makes sense.

Cue
Jun 22, 2006, 15:38
:souka:
I didn't know that the right part of 媛 is 愛... ^^;;;

In Japan, there's a prefecture called 愛媛(えひめ), sounds like a lot of love there, eh. xD

Anyway, very cute names, you guys. :wave:

Q

Glenn
Jun 22, 2006, 16:00
Well, it isn't, really. The right side is the Chinese simplified version of 愛, which is 爱. It actually means "lead on to; therefore; then", according to Jim Breen's online kanji dictionary.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1MKJ6029

Veidit
Jun 27, 2006, 12:14
Hello admin/moderator, I hope that this isn't to off topic.

Ah how about learning the phrase "I love you" in diffrent languages
in Swedish it's spelled: "Jag &#228;lskar dig"
Other romantic swedish phrases (hope I spelled that right):
"Du betyder allt f&#246;r mig" - You mean everything to me
"N&#228;r jag t&#228;nkter p&#229; dig blir jag varm" I get all warm when I'm thinking of you

Anyone want some more Swedish phrases?

Kyoko_desu
Jun 27, 2006, 13:01
OK, I know how to say "I love you." in Polish.
It's "Kocham cie." I learned it from a very good chat friend of mine a couple of years ago.
Oh I miss him, he can't come online for a while becuase he quit school and had to join the army. I just hope he is doing fine there... U_U

Glenn
Jun 27, 2006, 13:59
This is the Chinese Language forum, so please keep discussions to the Chinese language.

If you want, you can start a thread in the Chit Chat & Miscellaneous (http://www.wa-pedia.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=15) forum about how to say "I love you" and similar phrases in different world languages.

逐肉
Jul 21, 2006, 22:23
俺爱你
another translation.

huayue
Jul 22, 2006, 12:04
俺爱你
another translation.
in Dongbei...hmmm.you always use 俺爱你(an ai ni) instead 我爱你
it's funny~XD

4321go
Jul 24, 2006, 01:09
haha ,Maybe the real north people would say like this: 俺稀罕你

ricecake
Jul 24, 2006, 03:46
Guys ...

Are these variations spring from Manchu language ?

Another Aoi Fan
Jul 28, 2006, 12:23
wow, cool! Thanks, Glenn.
...but..uh.. how do you pronounce 也? ya? -_-;
Q
Ye!

Wo ye ai ni!

Its put in between wo and ai. Its like: I also love you.

Tomii515
May 21, 2007, 05:12
:souka:
I didn't know that the right part of 媛 is 愛... ^^;;;
In Japan, there's a prefecture called 愛媛(えひめ), sounds like a lot of love there, eh. xD
Anyway, very cute names, you guys. :wave:
Q
:D My friend lives in ehime
!

I though id just sya that XD

我爱你!
愛してる!
사랑해!

leorainbow
May 29, 2007, 16:32
lol, no. My friend, who speaks Chinese, told me how to say it. When I saw the words, it sounded formiliar.
it pronounced like this...

wo ai ni

StandAlone2323
Jun 11, 2007, 22:43
我 爱 你
wo ai ni
I love you

probably,"予" is I in wu or cantanese

actually, chinese is universally written the same. exactly the same. any literate chinese person can communicate with any other chinese person (even if they are speaking in another dialect) by writing.

lonlywalker
Jul 19, 2007, 17:31
well,i heard that in northeast of China if a girl likes a boy,she usually asks him "你稀罕我不,反正我是挺稀罕你的" .That means,"do you love me?anyway, i love you." ,but that's more funny than"我爱你"。

frostyg02uk
Jul 19, 2007, 17:36
Wo ai ni?...that brings back some memories

huayue
Aug 6, 2007, 14:32
Wo ai ni?...that brings back some memories
:-) guess it must be indelible memories XD

frostyg02uk
Aug 6, 2007, 19:37
Haha maybe. I think it reminds me of my younger youth ^-^
ehh im starting to day dream back to it. A more innocent time ;o))

huayue
Aug 6, 2007, 20:41
u.u younger youth ,its really an innocent time~but mine was filled with gambades...heheh~perhaps ,I LOVE YOU the romantic sentence were locked in many person's memory boxes^^

frostyg02uk
Aug 6, 2007, 20:46
Haha younger youth cause im still young ;o)

huayue
Aug 6, 2007, 20:50
^o^ you're not old~heheh

hot12lips12
Aug 18, 2007, 12:34
whats with the 3 and 4 and 3 and trhe #'s after each word?
it's the pernounciation thing, because every word with the same romaji or whatever you call that. has four pernounciations, so those numbers indicate which pernounciation it is , so when you say it, others won't mistaken it for another word


This thread is awesome!
yeah, huayue, I'm starting to feel so happy too, to see everyone says "I love you"... xD
hey, you guys, "Wo ai niiiii", too~ xD
(how do you say, "i love you too" in chinese??)
Besides, I also want to hear it in other languages! (...then would it be off topic??)
Q
"wo ye ai ni"
is how you say i luv you too in chinese

mammonth
Aug 6, 2008, 01:50
U are so cute...^~^

我爱你

wo ai ni

iceman
Nov 12, 2008, 20:19
你好。你好吗?
我朋友。

nice to meet you in this JREF , i love chinese soooo much
我喜欢中国人 。。。。。

hey huayue nice to meeeeeet you ....

huayue
Dec 11, 2008, 21:26
你好。你好吗?
我朋友。
nice to meet you in this JREF , i love chinese soooo much
我喜欢中国人 。。。。。
hey huayue nice to meeeeeet you ....
haha,seems anyone here is intrested in this thread ^^
你好,清泉,你让我想起了这里的另一位朋友:blush:

iceman
Dec 11, 2008, 22:54
haha,seems anyone here is intrested in this thread ^^
你好,清泉,你让我想起了这里的另一位朋友:blush:


谢谢你
thank for you warm welcome and no thing intersting by this words ...

LukeSettle
Feb 22, 2009, 12:55
Such a niiice threaaaaad!

Wo aiiiiii niiiiiii!
:D

bluesratapoil
Feb 26, 2009, 13:37
hehe
very nice topic, to me.
I travelled a lot in japan and love this country, but my heart goes to a native Beijing girl. We don't use cantonese or any old fashion way for those words. Just the 3 words (with a "ye" when a reply comes).
:cool: