あなたの笑顔が大好き
anata no egao ga daisuki
In Japanese, "I love your smile" is said as あなたの笑顔が大好き (anata no egao ga daisuki).
This phrase is used as a compliment to tell someone that you find their smiling face very attractive or charming. Within the phrase, anata no means "your" and egao is the word for "smile".
Is there a formal and an informal way to say it?
To express your feelings politely, especially to someone you are not extremely close to, you can add desu to the end of the phrase, resulting in あなたの笑顔が大好きです. The phrase Anata no egao ga suki desu. is another formal way to say "I love your smile."
How does it change in a sentence?
The word egao means "smile". If you remove dai from daisuki, the intensity of the phrase changes from "love" to "like", turning あなたの笑顔が大好き into あなたの笑顔が好き ("I like your smile").
How do you pronounce it?
anata no egao ga daisuki
What mistakes should you avoid?
English speakers often mistakenly use the object marker wo instead of the subject marker ga with daisuki. This happens because daisuki functions like an adjective in Japanese rather than a transitive verb.
Did you know?
- In Japanese culture, using the word anata to mean 'you' can actually feel distant or even confrontational. To be more natural, people often replace it with the person's actual name.
- The word dai in daisuki literally means 'big', so you are essentially saying you have a 'big like' for that smile.
- The word egao is a compound made of the characters for 'face' and 'laugh', literally meaning 'laughing face'.
Examples in context
- あなたの笑顔が大好きです。anata no egao ga daisuki desu.I love your smile.
Example conversation
Misaki and Kenta are talking while walking in a park.
- 美咲 Misaki健太くん、いつも笑っていて素敵ね。Kenta-kun, itsumo waratte ite suteki ne.Kenta, it's lovely that you're always smiling.
- 健太 Kenta本当？照れるなあ。Hontō? Tereru nā.Really? I'm blushing.
- 美咲 Misaki本当だよ。あなたの笑顔が大好き。Hontō da yo. Anata no egao ga daisuki.I mean it. I love your smile.
- 健太 Kentaありがとう、美咲ちゃん。Arigatō, Misaki-chan.Thank you, Misaki.
