"Different ways to say I love you?

Hello,

I thought it was common to say miluji or miluju when saying I love you.
Does the following: ""Mam te strasne moc rad" also mean I love you? Is one way stronger than the other?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...

 

In today´s spoken Czech, "miluju tě" sounds a little bit unnatural; in written language (letters, and especially books, it is more common). If a Czech man told me "mám tě strašně moc rád" (and I loved him, too), I would be the happiest girl in the world.

 

Thanks so much... I appreciate it.

Tim

 

Mam te strasne moc rad

Does that mean "I love you madly" ?

 

I love you madly = jsem do tebe blázen
mám tě strašně moc rád = I love you very very much

 

Dekuju Jana

 

This is what my Yahoo!Group on Czech language was discussing about "love".

Here's a list of possible sentences of the "fall-in-love" type in various tenses:

Past:

Czech: Zamiloval/a jsem se do Tebe
Possible translations:

1. I had fallen in love with you
2. I fell in love with you
3. I have fallen in love with you

Czech: Zamilovával/a jsem se do Tebe
Possible translations:

1. I had been falling in love with you
2. I was falling in love with you
3. I have been falling in love with you
4. I used to fall in love with you

Czech: Byl/a jsem do Tebe zamilovaný/á
Possible translations:

1. I had been in love with you
2. I was in love with you
3. I have been in love with you

Czech: Býval/a jsem do Tebe zamilovaný/á
Possible translations:

1. I used to be in love with you

Present:

Czech: Zamilovávám se do Tebe
Possible translations:

1. I am falling in love with you
2. I have been falling in love with you

Czech: Jsem do Tebe zamilovaný/á
Possible translations:

1. I have been in love with you
2. I am in love with you

Future:

Czech: Zamiluji se do Tebe
Possible translations:

1. I will fall in love with you
2. I will have fallen in love with you

Czech: Budu se do Tebe zamilovávat
Possible translations:

1. I will be falling in love with you
2. I will have been falling in love with you

Czech: Budu do Tebe zamilovaný/á
Possible translations:

1. I will be in love with you
2. I will have been in love with you

NOTES:

a. /a(á) = feminine ending (masculine has no special verb ending, -ý in adjectives)
b. "zamilovat" vs. "zamilovávat" = simple vs. iterative/progressive (i.e. continuous or repetitive)
c. When addressing someone whom you love, admire, value, use capital letters in personal and possessive pronouns, hence Ty, Tvoje, Tebe, etc.
d. The -i ending in "zamiluji" might sound a bit formal. You can use -u instead: "zamiluju". Similarly, many other verbs can change like that: maluji/maluju, píši/píšu, přeji/přeju.
e. As for the cultural use:

zamilovat se = fall in love with
být zamilovaný/á = be in love with

 

That was very helpful Rhenium Dekuju

 

This site is awesome. I've only recently started to learn to speak Czech and this site is just what I needed. Especially this thread about saying 'I love you'. My girlfriend should be happy with some of the new phrases I've learned from here

Dekuju!