Don't apologize...It's a tricky phrase. Te amo means I love you. It's used in cases of very deep, passionate love, for example: the mushy gushy love you see on soap operas. Amo is the present tense yo form of the verb amar - to love. Te is direct object pronoun meaning you. Te + amo = te amo = I love you.
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, 1865. On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for President of the United States for the second time. On that occasion, with the end of the Civil War in sight, he gave one of the most famous speeches in American presidential history.
Second inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt, 1905. The inauguration for the first U.S. president, George Washington, was held on April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City where he was sworn in by Robert Livingston, the Chancellor of the State of New York.