Which language is the language of love? This Valentine’s Day, Business Language Services (BLS) would like to help you find the perfect words to express how you feel about your loved one.
Love at first sight
Some languages express love at first sight as a strike of lightning. ‘Un coup de foudre’ in French, ‘un colpo di fulmine’ in Italian and ‘blixtförälskelse’ in Swedish. Perhaps you feel ‘drunk with love’? This expression is shared in Finnish (‘retkahtaa’) and in Indonesian (‘mabuk cinta’).
The art of seduction
If you want to take advice from the French, you could ‘faire la bouche en coeur’, which literally translates as ‘to make your mouth into a heart’. Alternatively, you could ‘hiza o majieru’ or ‘have a talk’ like the Japanese, which, as with many Japanese expressions, has the multiple meaning of ‘to mingle knees with one another’.
Rejection
If you’re looking to let someone down gently today, you could follow the Italian example and ‘dare il pacco a qualcuno’, which roughly translates to ‘leave someone holding the bags.’ If you’re unfortunate enough to ‘dostać czarnq polewkę’ (‘to get black soup’) today, it looks like love isn’t on the menu for you today.
Perhaps you are just unlucky in love and as the Spanish would say, ‘no comerse una rosca,’ which translates literally as ‘to not eat a doughnut’ and refers to someone who is unlucky in love.
Terms of endearment
Looking for the perfect pet name for your love? How about ‘mon petit chou’ (from French meaning ‘my little cabbage’), ‘sockerpulla’ (from Finnish meaning ‘sugar crumb’), ‘Zuckerschnecke’ (from German meaning ‘sugar snail’), ‘patatino’ (from Italian meaning ‘little potato’) or ‘jegar’ (from Persian meaning ‘liver’).
Next time you are searching for the perfect words, give Business Language Services a call. We can help you express yourself, in any language.
Author: Lizzie De Benedictis, Customer Relationship Manager
Source: ‘JE T’AIME, The Language of Love for Lovers of Language’ by Erin McKean
