We know that in japanese people usually say '愛している', TO LOVER. CAN i say 愛する?
or あなたがすきです?. Besides, is '愛している' is a single verb?
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How to express love in japanese?
愛する sounds like "I will love you", but not "I love you now". So, 愛している is
correct.

If you're close enough to say such a thing, you can change している→してる. It sounds
more relaxed!

You can say 「[other person's name]のことがすきだ」 if you're a guy, or 「[other
person's name]のことがすき」 if you're a girl. You can replace the name with a word
for "you" like きみ or あなた if you want, but my old girlfriend didn't like to be
called by a pronoun, even by me or her own family.

愛している is a noun meaning "love" plus a form of する. There are a lot of nouns
that can be used directly with する.
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愛する is a verb and 愛している is a progressive form of it.

We say commonly を愛している than を愛する。

I think we say 好き with a light heart than を愛している.
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Since the question regards "expressing love" I feel compelled to add
something.

It is very important to underline that "expressing love" in Japan is a concept
that can be **very very** different from the way we are used to see it "in the
west" (to make a rough generalisation, say mostly Europe and North America).

Based on both personal and friends experiences in regard to "love" in Japan
(and I'm talking of several cases, both "foreigner-Japanese" and "Japanese-
Japanese") saying "I love you", or 愛している, is not so common after all. Of
course, this is something that _might greatly depend on the people_ , but I
have to say that in general is as I said. Also, my impression is that if it is
being used, is mostly because Japanese people now know well that foreigner
like to say "I love you" and that is translated as "愛している!"... I hope what I
mean here is clear, it's a bit hard to explain (and besides, as I said is just
my personal feeling).

Anyway, you will hear much more often Japanese people saying (あなたが)好きです or
大好きです rather than 愛している, even when the relationship has been going on for a
while. This also is quite interesting as it gives a different perspective to
the word "好き", that is often simply translated as "to like", while sometimes
might bear a much deeper meaning, depending on the situation.

But I have to say that most of the times... you probably will not hear
anything at all! My feeling is that in "the west" we say "I love you" or in
general we express our love through (spoken or written) words much more often
than Japanese people (in general) do. And probably when and if they do they do
it in a much different way anyway.

I guess that this (feelings) is one of those topics where if you start digging
you realise that sometimes even the word "translation" becomes almost
meaningless. You can find the right words, you can find the most suitable
words ever actually to express what you have in mind, or in you heart for that
matters. However, no matter how perfect your translation is, _you cannot
change the way people feel_. That's where sometimes communication with words
fails, big time. Fortunately, that is not the only form of communication there
is. :)

This could probably start an interesting discussion about the different way in
which people in Japan (and I believe in good part of Asia in general) live and
express their feelings, especially about love. However, I believe that this
would go too much off topic.

I hope what I tried to express is clear, is a very subtle topic and I hope I
did not create misunderstandings. If unclear, please leave a comment.
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