Les Petits Noms d’Amour – French Love Nicknames
1 – French Love Nicknames Used to Speak to Men and Women
Mon amour – my love
Mon ange – my angel
Mon trésor – my treasure
Mon coeur – my heart
Mon canard – my duck – yes, I know… wait, it gets worse…
Mon chou – my sweet bun (un chou à la crème is a cream filled puff pastry) – “mon petit chou” is also quite common
Mon chouchou – comes from “mon chou”
Doudou – no literal translation – it sounds very bad in English but we use it a lot in French! The origine is Creole French and it means sweety, darling…
Mon lapin – my rabbit
Mon poussin – my chick
2 – French Love Nicknames Used to Speak to Men
Mon chat – my cat (do not say the final t)
Mon chéri – my darling
Mon beau – my beautiful one
Mon choupinet – no translation – but comes from “mon chou”
Mon gros – my fat one
Loulou – no translation
Mon loup – my wolfe
Mon ours – my bear
Mon nounours – my teddy bear
Minou – kitty
Roudoudou – no translation although it was the name of a hard caramel candy…
3 – French Love Nicknames Used to Speak to Women
Ma belle – my beautiful one
Ma beauté – my beauty
Ma biche, ma bichette – my doe
Mon biquet – my goat kid
Ma caille – my quail
Ma chatte – my cat (be careful with this one as well : it means pussy, with exactly the same double meanings as it has in English)
Ma chérie – my darling
Ma choute – no translation – again comes from “mon chou”
Choupinette – no translation – again comes from “mon chou”
Ma cocotte – no translation but it has to do with hen
Ma colombe – my dove
Ma crevette – my shrimp (no, not the worse one)
Ma gazelle – my gazelle
Lolotte – no translation
Ma mie (very old fashion)
Minette – kitty
Moumoune – no translation
Ma poule, ma poulette – my hen
Poupounette – no translation
Ma Puce – my flea (yes, I know, it’s embarrassing) – also “Pupuce”…
Ma sardine – my sardine (no comment)
Ma souris – my mouse
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