I love you.

[lizinka.livejournal.com]

English: I love you.
My attempt: Я любόвь ты.
Web translator: Я люблю Вас.

Who's right? Me or the computer?

Thanks!

Comments

[michellio.livejournal.com]

You would use тебя instead of ты: Я тебя люблю.

[lizinka.livejournal.com]

Ha! We were both wrong! Take that stupid computer!!! Mu ha ha ha ha!!

Thanks! ;c)

[michellio.livejournal.com]

You seem really cool, I like reading your posts in this community =) Is it okay if I add you to my friends list?? =)))

[lizinka.livejournal.com]

That'd be super! I am a VERY beginner in Russian...(aka VERY bad speaker/writer of Russian). ;c)

[karashi.livejournal.com]

I was just wondering where the little dot over the "o" came from. Which translator did you use?

[lizinka.livejournal.com]

I used "The Oxford Russian Dictionary". It has a little accent above the "o", but that isn't a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, so I was a bit confused. I ended up using a Latin charater.

[lexazloy.livejournal.com]

True: Я люблю Вас. Я люблю тебя. etc.

False: Я любόвь ты.

[lizinka.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

Well they are both wrong. Lubov is the noun, not the verb. The verb is Lubit' (sorry for lack of cyrillic). Conjugated to Ya, lubit' becomes Lyublyu (though the yu is usually just pronounced as a u when spoken quickly).

As far as Vas vs. Tiy, they are both kinda wrong. Vas is the accusitive form of Viy, but if you were telling someone you loved them, why would you say "you" in its formal form? (unless you were speaking to a group of people, in which case vas woudl be correct). Tiy is the nominative form, and you need accusative because you are performing the verb (love) on "you" (tiy). The accusative is Tibya.

It should read "Ya lublu tibya" (я люблю тебя) (lack of previous cyrillic cuz im a lazy ass lol)

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

btw, ya lublu tibya can also be said ya tibya lublu, since it is obvious who the subject is and who the object is.

[karashi.livejournal.com]

You can switch the order around any way you want, but the emphasis will change ever-so-slightly.

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

Yea. It also depends on the tone you take when you say it and what word you emphasize in your speech (ya TIBYA lublu (I love YOU) vs ya tibya LUBLU (I LOVE you))

[lizinka.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I think I'm looking at this from "too English" of a perspective.

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

Well its just as correct to say it with that syntax. Once you understand the cases and all that, you will see that Russian sentense stucture is sooooo much more flexible than english sentence stucture.

[vyacheslav.livejournal.com]

The reason it says вас is that's the default. Any time you translate you on a translator it will give you the formal version, afaik.

[lizinka.livejournal.com]

I see. That makes sense.

[karashi.livejournal.com]

Присажывайтесь жрать, пожалуйсто.

Гы-ы-ы-ы-ы-ы-ы. =Р

[ex-evengar540.livejournal.com]

Well, you would've said "Я люблю вас" if you lived like a hunder years ago... :-)

[ex-evengar540.livejournal.com]

hunder - hundred, of course

[lizinka.livejournal.com]

In Russian, which would be the most correct to use?

[oscar-6.livejournal.com]

Very, very questionable statement.

As far as I know, "thee" is a poetic, old-fashioned "you". And in Russian usage of "Я люблю вас" when expressing your feelings is also very poetic and old-fashioned. So I'd say that "I love thee" is much closer to "Я люблю вас".

Thou, etc

[smorodina.livejournal.com]

Like most other Indo-european languages, English used to have two forms for 'you'. Thou, thee, thy, thine was used for close friends, family, lovers, children and those considered inferior. Pretty much the same as German 'du' and 'Sie', French 'tu' and 'vous' and Russian 'ты' and 'вы'. It was used by Shakespeare, but went out of common use soon after his time.

So at that time, the correct phrase to use for someone close would have been 'I love thee', and this is how it is still used in poetry, and is equivalent to 'я люблю тебя'.

[thedevilishone.livejournal.com]

neither are correct.

you would say:

ya liubliu tebya or ya tebya liubliu.

vas is informal. ya liubov' ty - just the wrong way to say it.