If amor is "love" than how come "i love" is yo quiero?
If amor is "love" than how come "i love" is yo quiero?
13 Answers
Heidita - do you really believe those terms come together???
love , plain and simple.
Excellent! God I love that girl Heidita, and I'll tell you why and why this is a great thread. She is european. She lives and breathes spanish from espain. Bueno...donde ella viva, es distincto, es decir las palabras que usan alla, son de sabor distincto. Bueno...if I had the pleasure of seeing Heidita in the streets of Madrid, and I said to her, with my eyes bien en fuego, "te quiero", she would know I did not mean I love you. Now, where she lives, that phrase means I love you. I don't speak the form of spanish she speaks. I understand her, and she understands me, but we don't speak in the same fashion. Now, if I said to her, con mis ojos en fuego, "Te quiero", she would know exactly what I meant. I did not mean I love you. And she would say, "So, it's you Chamaco, por fin....echate a mi lado." If her husband said, "te quiero", she would understand it as it is WHERE SHE COMES FROM. This is lo mos important and I'm saying it forever...know where you are, know the vocabulary where you are...don't talk like me...you'll get in trouble. Learn what they teach you here, and you will do just fine. 
Janice, the use of te quiero and te amo has been discussed a lot of times on this site.
In Spain we usay "te quiero", we almost never use "te amo".
Te quiero has nothing to do with any sexual desire, it is love , plain and simple.
Te amo is not used for children or family members anywhere.
I love you is Te Amo. Te Quiero is a lust thing. Something you say to that chick that is just so fine you think you are gonna burst at the seams if you look at her for one more minute.
It seems pretty logical to me...
How often
I want you - te quiero
is more honest then
I love you - te amo
?
In real life you wouldn't say te quiero to your child unless you are saying yo te quiero a limpiar tu cuarto...but the words alone, "te quiero" are lusty, plain and simple.
I have a question about the answers...I thought that one would say "te quiero mucho" to one's child....and "te amo" only to ones "one true love" ??
te amo implies that you are in love with someone. in most spoken spanish, this would be the love shared with a lover or the one you feel for that special 'other one' (with some exceptions, where it can also be used with parents though it is not the rule).
te quiero can be the love you have for your parents, cousins, very close friends, but does not denote any sort of closer relationship or intimacy.
in a way, you can think that "te amo" is a degree higher than "te quiero".
if you wanted to be a language purist though, 'te quiero' means literally 'I want you', which in certain situations can mean 'I crave for you or I desire you'. Again, i have the strong need to reming everyone here that Spanish is a lot about context, whether you're in Spain, Mexico or Argentina.
He comenzado a aprender español muy recientemente...
So my deduction was strictly (il)logical.
heres the real answer. "I love" is me encanta. The word love is "amor". Yo quiero is"I want". I hate is the "yo" form of odiar. (odio) In love is enamorado To need is necesitar to like is, me, te, le, les gusta
Get it?
querer can mean want/wish/wish for/need/love/like.
I do believe "amor" is stronger then "querer."
Kind of like the difference between "I like like you." and "I love you."
Then again, there are MANY different verbs that can be used to express affection, so go with what you think is best
How do I say I love thee? Let me count the ways. If you do a search you will find several ways to say "I love you" in Spanish.
