What does TKM mean in a text message in Spanish?

In Spanish 'QU' is pronounced 'k'. Therefore, in short hand text speech Quiero is reduced to K.

'Te Quiero Mucho' means 'I love you a lot' , although the direct translation is' I want you a lot', and 'I love you a lot' directly translates to 'Te Amo Mucho'. The difference is that Te Quiero is less formal than Te Amo, which has connotations of being in a serious relationship.

It is equal to the English format I❤U.

[I (heart) you.]

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Grant McIntosh

If somebody sent me a text message saying "I burn you a lot", they would be a person that I would tend to avoid.

Alejandro Moncada Sucre

Actually, it is more common to us TQM

jaime alzate

ACTUALLY, NOBODY USES TKM, BUT TQM, IN SPANISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES.

Frank Cowell

Some really weird messages there...

Lynne Cohen

what does the flag in the picture have to do with anything??

Val Wilkinson

It isn’t English to say I ❤️ You- it’s American

deborahpmercer

Jarrah Iluka, I agree that the main body of a question and, of course, the information source, should be in English, but think that introducing elements of a foreign language into a question is fine.

Chris Brown

Not a clue. I don't speak Spanish and I doubt many other QC members would either unless they were Spanish themselves, and that goes for any other language. Please have more consideration when considering this kind of question in future. Not all of us are multilingual.

Player

Jack Jackal, the Mexican flag made me think of Mexican Spanish as opposed to Spanish Spanish

Jack Jackal

Alejandro Moncada Sucre, Not in Mexico. Most of the youth use TKM not TQM, don't ask me why.

Monty Mathias

I was working at a pool in state park job in my teens when one rainy afternoon a girl from New York stopped to visit. Her family was on a road trip, and she hadn't met anyone her age in a week. We exchanged addresses, and this time I actually followed up on it, and we corresponded for about a year. A few days before our Senior Class trip, which just happened to be to NYC that year, she signed off on her letter to me 'Te Quiero". I didn't speak Spanish, but I thought I understood what it meant. I was right. We carried on a brief long distance relationship, but remained friends for decades. She was, I always felt, the first real love of my life.