愛してる

Japanese

Kanji in this term
あい
Grade: 4
on’yomi

Etymology

A phrase forming a complete sentence, consisting of (ai, love) + して (shite, conjunctive form of verb する suru, “to do”) + いる (iru, to be, to be doing something). The shite iru contracts in informal speech into shiteru.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [a̠i ɕi̥te̞ɾ̠ɯᵝ]

Phrase

愛してる (hiragana あいしてる, rōmaji ai shiteru)

  1. (informal) I'm in love with you, I love you

Usage notes

This literally just means “[someone] loves [someone]”, with the two “someones” (grammatical subject and object) understood from context.

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Descendants

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