Hello...

Does "In Liebe " at the end of a letter mean "with love" ?

Can one write mit Liebe ?

I am a bit unsure ..so any explanation will be helpful..
thanks

It means in love, something you'd write at the end of a love letter. I can't think of a good translation for "with love" right now.

So is "Liebe Gruesse" a more general, friendly sign-off between friends?

that is what i am trying to figure out, as I got a letter with the ending "in Liebe"

Ah yes, Liebe Grüsse is for friends. Often found abbreviated to "lg" at the end of an SMS. It got a lot more common in the last five to ten years and I found it a bit odd in the beginning.

If you have a letter ending "In Liebe" Zanscar, this person is quite near to you. I am not saying she/he is in love with you, but the person who has written this is pretty "herzlich" (affectionate?). With "Liebe Gruesse" I would end a letter to my Bank-Manager whom I know, "Freundliche Gruesse" I would end a letter to somebody in business whom I don't know
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Saying that I have been criticised by my English friend for ending a letter/note with "Lots of love" to a person whom I only met a few times, but found very nice. She said that was too friendly! So it's not that clear cut in English either.

Ten years ago, you were still playing football in size 35 shoes.

Ah, insults sprinkled with a compliment to dodge the groan

Not necessarily a love letter as it does not inevatibly mean "in love". You can also write this under the flowers you place on the last place of an aunt (godmother) you really liked when she was alive.




"Liebe Grüsse" is for people still alive, and most likely for greeting more than one person

Let's agree that "In Love" is as far from a formal greeting as you can get. (Plus I think and hope zanskar is still alive )

What makes you think "Liebe Grüsse" addresses several people, I'm curious? There's no hint about the number of addressees in this greeting.

It's quite comforting that "lg" stands for what it stands for (Liebe Grusse)... Most of the time I come across mit Freundliche Grusse oder Gruss (what happened to Greek "Beta" taught in olden schools in German language that has been abolished )

I often find it as a signature in the end of SMS's and I was pointlessly thinking that someone impertinently is trying to advertise LG...

Sorry but that made me LOL.

I get many texts with LG at the end i find it nice and friendly

Swiss Germans writing in High German, sigh, almost always pretty disastrous

"In Liebe" really is nicely put and I would say the equivalent to perhaps two of those " xx " one puts sometimes on a note or letter.

btw. is this mainly an American thing or do others do that too, I mean putting those xxx, I always took them to mean kisses, is this really what it does mean?

yes xxx are kisses, and ooo are hugs me and my friends use them all the time like this xoxo

I know you support Dell notebooks (power supplies and accessories ) but didn know you also stash appliances from LG

LOL too funny tks hey you know how crap with electrical stuff i am so noway would i be stashing more of them

Just to keep in spirit of the lingo corner

Sehr geehrte Frau.Sutter,

We would like to apologize for all the inconveniences caused by our LG appliances which were subject to starting all the threads with... Grrrrr

LG & xoxo

jacek

EDIT: Sorry cudnt resist it was so LOL!

Grrrrrrrr you are a very cheeky monkey

Lots of xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

P.S so you bloody well should be aswell

Didn't know about "o". If you wrote xoxo to me I'd expect a kiss and a cup of Oxo.

Mmmmm, Oxo. Can you add pepper to mine please?

You learn something new everyday Beef Oxo yummy, but with pepper