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LoveAdd romance, passion and mystery to your Valentine by sending an e-card in another language. Try these phrases in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Welsh, Gaelic, and Irish.

Does your partner speak a different native language to you? Tell us about it - how you met, how you live, how you learn to understand each other!

Select a phrase to appear on your card and send it off to your Valentine.

French
"Je t'aime."
I love you.
[Juh tem.]

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"Cet amour tout entier
 Si vivant encore
 Et tout ensoleillé
 C'est le tien
 C'est le mien."
   Jacques Prévert 		This entire love
Still so alive
And all sun-lit
It is yours
It is mine. 		[Set amoor toot ontyay
See veevont oncor
Ay toot onsoleyay
Say luh tee-an
Say luh mee-an]
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Spanish
"Te quiero."
I love you.
[Te kyero.]

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"Ven a dormir conmigo: no haremos el amor. Él nos hará."
   Julio Cortázar
Come and sleep with me: we won't make love. It will make us.
[Ben a dormeer konmeego: no aremos el amor. El nos ara.]
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German
"Ich liebe Dich."
I love you.
[Ih leebe dih.]

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"Liebe verbindet alles."
   Goethe
Love unites everything.
[Leebe furbeendet ales.]
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Italian
"Ti amo."
I love you.
[Tee amo.]

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"Siamo angeli con un'ala sola, per volare dobbiamo stare abbracciati."
Luciano De Crescenzo
We are angels with but a single wing, in order to fly we must embrace.
[Syamo anjelee kon un ala sola, per volaray dobbiamo staray abbrachyatee.]
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Welsh
"Dwi'n dy garu di."
I love you.
[Dween der garry dee.]

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"'Sgen ti sws i mi?"
Give us a kiss!
[Sgen tee swss ee me.]
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Gaelic
"Tha gaol agam ort."
I love you.
[Ha gool agum orsht.]

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"Thig crìoch air an t-saoghal ach mairidh ceòl is gaol."
An end will come to the world but love and music will remain.
[Heeg creeoh eir un taol ah mairi ceol is gool.]
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Irish
"Mo ghrá thú!"
I love you.
[Mo ra who.]

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"Is tú grá geal mo chroí."
You are the bright love of my heart.
[Isss two gra gal mu ree.]
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