I love you from the bottom of my heart.

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Permalink Reply by Marc Vonhalmen on November 30, 2009 at 12:25am

"Je vous aime du fond de mon coeur" is correct, but one would rather say "Je vous aime du fond du coeur". Indeed, in French, when you're talking about your leg, your head, your heart, any body part, you don't need to say that it is yours since the sense of the sentence makes it obvious already. For instance:
My leg hurts ---> J'ai mal à la jambe. NOT J'ai mal à ma jambe, since it's pretty obvious that it is YOUR leg and not somebody else's leg.
So here: Je vous aime du fond du coeur.

"With best regards" can be translated in many different ways, but since it's a love letter, "Je t'embrasse" fits perfectly. By the way, you used "vous" in your sentence "Je vous aime..." and now you're using "tu"... Choose one but don't use both ;-)
--> Je t'aime du fond du coeur AND Je t'embrasse
OR
--> Je vous aime du fond du coeur AND Je vous embrasse.
(since it's a love letter, I guess you should use "tu")

Note: By the way, the usual typical translation for "With best regards" is "Avec mes meilleures salutations"

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on November 30, 2009 at 12:36am

Marc --

What you say about parts of the body is generally true when you're talking about parts of the body in the literal sense.

However, in some more figurative phrases, including du fond de mon coeur, it seems reasonably common to use mon/ma etc. (If you do a Google search, you'll actually see that du fond de mon coeur appears more common than du fond du coeur, for what it's worth-- that doesn't obviously mean you should read too much into this, but > 4 million instances of a phrase means you probably can't write it off.)

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on November 30, 2009 at 12:37am

In a semi-formal e-mail, another good phrase for "Best regards" is cordialement, of course.

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