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Not really. "I adore you" is literally "te adoro". "Querer" in Spanish just means "to love", it's a synonym to "amar", also "to love". "Querer" is more common l

by jng 5y ago

Not really. "I adore you" is literally "te adoro". "Querer" in Spanish just means "to love", it's a synonym to "amar", also "to love". "Querer" is more common language and applied non-romantically all the time, and "amar" is more poetic and veers more towards romantic love, but they both mean the same. BTW, "querer" means "to want", but when it is used to convey love (easy to tell by context), it doesn't ring of objectification in any way. "Quiero a mi familia" is the simplest, clearest, way to say "I love my family".

wbsss4412 5y ago
This is what I had thought. And in the way this is written, it’s clear that querer does not have a clear English translation. No English speaker would truly understand the proper meaning and context with which querer is used without knowing some Spanish.
School-Cotton 5y ago
Indeed. When I first started dating someone who is natively bilingual in English and (Northern Mexican) Spanish, she didn’t yet feel strongly enough about me to say “I love you” in English, so she always told me “te quiero”, as there was no English phrase other than “I love you” that fit in that niche.
dmitriid 5y ago
> "Querer" is more common language and applied non-romantically all the time, and "amar" is more poetic and veers more towards romantic love, but they both mean the same. It's interesting from the point of view of English and Russian. When we tal about people: - In English `love` can be used for both romantic and non-romantic love. - In Russian `love` (especially nowadays) feels to be almost exclusively either romantic or family-related (love between parent-child, between siblings etc.). You can't really tell your friend you love them :) It's weird
- vba616 5y ago
  >You can't really tell your friend you love them You might say in English to a friend "I love you" meaning "I'm bemused by your quirks, but I'm fond of you anyway". I wonder how that translates.

by jng 5y ago

wbsss4412 5y ago

This is what I had thought. And in the way this is written, it’s clear that querer does not have a clear English translation. No English speaker would truly understand the proper meaning and context with which querer is used without knowing some Spanish.

School-Cotton 5y ago

Indeed. When I first started dating someone who is natively bilingual in English and (Northern Mexican) Spanish, she didn’t yet feel strongly enough about me to say “I love you” in English, so she always told me “te quiero”, as there was no English phrase other than “I love you” that fit in that niche.

dmitriid 5y ago

> "Querer" is more common language and applied non-romantically all the time, and "amar" is more poetic and veers more towards romantic love, but they both mean the same. It's interesting from the point of view of English and Russian. When we tal about people: - In English `love` can be used for both romantic and non-romantic love. - In Russian `love` (especially nowadays) feels to be almost exclusively either romantic or family-related (love between parent-child, between siblings etc.). You can't really tell your friend you love them :) It's weird

vba616 5y ago
>You can't really tell your friend you love them You might say in English to a friend "I love you" meaning "I'm bemused by your quirks, but I'm fond of you anyway". I wonder how that translates.