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Brazilian Portuguese |
Eu te amo |
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Cheyenne |
Ne mohotatse |
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Chichewa |
Ndimakukonda |
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Creol |
Mi aime jou |
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Hawaiian |
Aloha wau ia oi |
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Hopi |
Nu' umi unangwa'ta |
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Inuit |
Negligevapse |
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Mohawk |
Kanbhik |
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Nahuatl |
Ni mits neki |
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Navaho |
Ayor anosh'ni |
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Papiamento |
Mi ta stimabo |
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Tahitian |
Ua Here Vau Ia Oe |
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Sioux |
Techihhila |
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Afrikaans |
Ek het jou lief |
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Yoruba |
Mo ni fe |
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Ethiopian |
Afgreki' |
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Kiswahili |
Nakupenda |
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Moroccan |
Ana moajaba bik |
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Swahili |
Ninapenda wewe |
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Setswana |
Ke a go rata |
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Bambara |
M'bi fe |
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Japanese |
Aishiteru |
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Mandarin Chinese |
Wo ai ni |
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Arabic (to female) |
Ana behibek |
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Arabic (to male) |
Ana behibak |
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Russian |
Ya tebya liubliu |
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Nepalese |
Ma timilai maya garchu |
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Turkish |
Seni seviyorum |
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Hindi |
Hum tumhe pyar karte hae |
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Cantonese Chinese |
Ngo oiy ney |
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Hebrew (to female) |
Ani ohev otah |
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Hebrew (to male) |
Ani ohevet otha |
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Armenian |
Kez yes sirumen |
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Malay |
Aku cintakan para mu |
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Korean |
Sarang heyo |
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Bangla |
Aamee tuma ke bhalo baashi |
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Farsi |
Doset daram |
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Bisaya |
Nahigugma ako kanimo |
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Cambodian |
Soro lahn nhee ah |
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Filipino |
Mahal kita |
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Gujarati |
Hoo thunay prem karoo choo |
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Hiligaynon |
Palangga ko ikaw |
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Hiligaynon |
Guina higugma ko ikaw |
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Hmong |
Kuv hlub koj |
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Ilonggo |
Palangga ko ikaw |
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Indonesian |
Saya cinta padamu |
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Kannada |
Naanu ninna preetisuttene |
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Kapampangan |
Kaluguran daka |
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Konkani |
Tu magel moga cho |
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Lebanese |
Bahibak |
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Malayalam |
Njan ninne premikunnu |
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Marathi |
Me tula prem karto |
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Pandacan |
Syota na kita!! |
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Pangasinan |
Inaru Taka |
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Persian |
Doo-set daaram |
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Sindhi |
Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan |
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Tagalog |
Mahal kita |
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Taiwanese |
Wa ga ei li |
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Tamil |
Nan unnai kathalikaraen |
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Telugu |
Nenu ninnu premistunnanu |
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Thai (to female) |
Phom rak khun |
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Thai (to male) |
Chan rak khun |
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Vietnamese (to female) |
Anh yêu em |
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Vietnamese (to male) |
Em yêu anh |
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Urdu |
Mai aap say pyaar karta hoo |
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I love you |
English |
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Je t'aime |
French |
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Te quiero |
Spanish |
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Ich liebe dich |
German |
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S'agapo |
Greek |
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Ti amo |
Italian |
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Aš tave myliu |
Lithuanian |
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Jeg elsker dig |
Danish |
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Minä rakastan sinua |
Finnish |
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Kocham cię |
Polish |
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Rwy'n dy garu |
Welsh |
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Te dua |
Albanian |
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Ma armastan sind |
Estonian |
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Taim i' ngra leat |
Irish |
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T'estimo |
Catalan |
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Volim te |
Serbian |
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Ljubim te |
Slovenian |
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Ich lieb Di |
Swiss-German |
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Te iubesc |
Romanian |
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Miluji te |
Czech |
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Szeretlek |
Hungarian |
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Ya tabe kahayu |
Belarusian |
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Obicham te |
Bulgarian |
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Ti tengu caru |
Corsican (to male) |
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Volim te |
Croatian |
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Ik hou van jou |
Dutch |
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Mi amas vin |
Esperanto |
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Eg elski teg |
Faroese |
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Ta gra agam ort |
Gaelic |
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Mikvarhar |
Georgian |
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Eg elska tig |
Icelandic |
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Te amo |
Latin |
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Es tevi mīlu |
Latvian |
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Jeg elsker deg |
Norwegian |
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Iay ovlay ouyay |
Pig Latin |
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Tha gra'dh agam ort |
Scot Gaelic |
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Lu`bim ta |
Slovak |
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Jag älskar dig |
Swedish |
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Ya tebe kahayu |
Ukrainian |
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Ikh hob dikh |
Yiddish |
WANNA know what GONNA means? LEMME show you.
Have you seen words like "gonna" or "wanna" and wondered
what they mean? Perhaps you have looked in a dictionary and
been unable to find them. That's because these words are
"informal contractions" or short forms of other words that
people use when speaking informally. They are not exactly
slang, but they are a little like slang. In fact, if you
look in a good (big) dictionary, you will usually find them.
Here are the 7 most common informal contractions, with
example sentences:
1. GIMME = give me
Gimme your money.
Don't gimme that rubbish.
Can you gimme a hand?
2. GONNA = going to
Nothing's gonna change my love for you.
I'm not gonna tell you.
What are you gonna do?
3a. GOTTA = (have) got a
I've gotta gun.
I gotta gun.
She hasn't gotta penny
Have you gotta car?
3b. GOTTA = (have) got to
I've gotta go now.
I gotta go now.
We haven't gotta do that.
Have they gotta work?
4. INIT = isn't it
That's smart, init?
Init strange?
5. KINDA = kind of
She's kinda cute.
Are you kinda mad at me?
6. LEMME = let me
Lemme go!
He didn't lemme see it.
7a. WANNA = want to
I wanna go home.
I don't wanna go.
Do you wanna watch TV?
7b. WANNA = want a
I wanna coffee.
I don't wanna thing from you.
Do you wanna beer?
Please remember that these are *informal* contractions.
That means that we do not use them in "correct" speech, and
we almost never use them in writing. We use them only when
speaking fast and informally, for example with friends. Also,
the sentences above may be a little artificial because when
we use a contraction like "wanna", we probably also use
other contractions in the same sentence, as follows:
Do you want a beer?
Do you wanna beer?
D'you wanna beer?
D'ya wanna beer?
Ya wanna beer?
Wanna beer?