i just need to know one word!

[vengeance]

ok, i just want to know how to say love in japenese. anyone know how?

[geishaboy]

To bad there are three words for love in Japanese

Suki, Ai and Koi

For the moment, just use Ai

Also, click here for some more information

[vengeance]

thankies! that helps alot! anyone reading this forum should take the link, it has a lot of cool information on it.

[Scorpia251]

um suki means "like" as in friend and Daisuki means love. Then aishiteru (blank) means "I love (blank)". Koi is the shortening for the word Koibito, meaning lover.I hope that helps ^-^

Yours Sincerly
Scorpia

[geishaboy]

Then aishiteru (blank) means "I love (blank)". Koi is the shortening for the word Koibito, meaning lover.I hope that helps ^-^

First, it would be (blank) wo aishiteru that means I love (blank), due to the word order in Japanese. Aishiteru (blank) is a noun clause, and means the (blank) that I love

漫画を愛してる manga wo aishiteru - I love manga
愛してる漫画 aishiteru manga - The manga (that) I love

Second, koibito comes from the word koi, not the other way around. Koi means love and hito means pearson, when you put two nouns together in Japanese the first constanant of the second word often becomes voiced. The worst part of this is that the kanji doesn't change when this happens

Koi -　恋 - Love
hito - 人- Person
koi　bito -　恋人 - Lovers, or Sweetheart as my textbook says

To make things even more confusing, when the words Ai and Jin get put together to make another word for lovers Aijin　愛人, they constanants don't change at all

[Scorpia251]

heh *blushes* sry Um never knew I was wrong...er I'm sorry for the mis-info Vengence. I'm afrad I'm not as comfortable in speaking another language...*rubs back of head sheepishly* *still blushing*

Sincerly Scorpia

[geishaboy]

heh *blushes* sry Um never knew I was wrong...er I'm sorry for the mis-info Vengence. I'm afrad I'm not as comfortable in speaking another language...*rubs back of head sheepishly* *still blushing*

Sincerly Scorpia

Don't be silly, you clearly have some knowledge of The Japanese Language, wich is a lot more than a lot of people around here have

I mean, you were completely right about suki and daisuki part

um suki means "like" as in friend and Daisuki means love.

Bang on the money

[vengeance]

it's all cool scorpia251, no harm done!

[Scorpia251]

Heh well I only know independant words and the occasional phrase that you absolutely need to know to survive over here #^-^#. so Domo arigato gosaimasu um...er what's your username mean? I dunno Katakana or kanji...*is jealous of all who DO know hiragana, katakana, and kanji*

[geishaboy]

芸者男の子 = geisha otoko no ko

[mewcard]

no sorry

[-Pachi]

lets see....there is Ai, mina, and there is Daisuki which means I love you and there is Kimi ga Sukisa with means I'm in love with you.....that is....if I'm correct

[TintaSerpentGoddess]

It's Ai.

[OniKira]

to say "i love you" couldnt you say "watashi wa anata ga totemo daisuki desu"

[Ryukon]

If you want to say it the long way, sure. There's no problem in that.

[OniKira]

ah, ok