How to Say "I Love You" in Arabic

أُحِبُّكَ

ʔuḥibbukaaddressee masculine

The phrase 'I love you' in Arabic is expressed as أُحِبُّكَ (ʔuḥibbuka). Wiktionary also lists أُحِبُّكِ (ʔuḥibbuki).

Meaning: affirmation of romantic feeling (phrase)

Ways to say it

“I love you” in Arabic
Arabic	Romanization (Wiktionary)	Note
أُحِبُّكَ	ʔuḥibbuka	addressee masculine
أُحِبُّكِ	ʔuḥibbuki	addressee masculine

The phrase is an affirmation of romantic feeling.

The phrase changes based on the gender of the person you are addressing. Use أُحِبُّكَ when speaking to a man and أُحِبُّكِ when speaking to a woman.

In Levantine Arabic, the expression بحبك قد الدني is used to mean 'I love you more than anything in the world'.

To address a female, the final vowel of the formal phrase changes from '-ka' to '-ki'.

ʔuḥibbuka

In some dialects, people say تقبرني, which literally means 'may you bury me'. It is a term of endearment meaning the speaker loves the other so much they hope to die first to avoid the pain of living without them.
To express a love that is absolute, speakers often use أعشقك, meaning 'I adore you'. This comes from عشق, a specific type of passionate love that historically described a love so intense it could cause illness.
Arabic has dozens of different words for different stages of love, ranging from 'attraction' to 'total loss of reason', meaning a single word like 'love' in English can be broken down into much more specific emotional states.

A couple is talking before saying goodbye.

سارة Sara

سأشتاق إليك كثيراً.
Sa-ashtāqu ilayka kathiran.
I will miss you very much.
زياد Ziad

وأنا أيضاً سأشتاق إليكِ.
Wa ana ayḍan sa-ashtāqu ilayki.
And I will miss you too.
سارة Sara

أُحِبُّكَ يا زياد.
Uhibbuka ya Ziyad.
I love you, Ziyad.
زياد Ziad

وأنا أُحِبُّكِ أيضاً يا سارة.
Wa ana uhibbuki ayḍan ya Sarah.
And I love you too, Sarah.

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