Sweet talk

[Amanogawa 79]

Very simply out of curiousity -- I just wondered how you would call your (Heart) special one (Heart) in your language. As many of you may know, Japanese totally pathetically lacks this kind of sweet words and expressions (Sign of disapproval) ... so I am interested to see how the languages vary in expressions, but yet how they share the essence of sweetness in common probably. "Sweetheart"?(Pierced by Cupids arrow...) "My Gold"?(Hugging and blushing...) Any mushiness highly appreciated (Playing a serenade...)

Amanogawa

[Kotoseiya Yuichi 3]

Let's see... I'll try first to translate English words to their Finnish approximations.

Sweetheart -> kulta, probably. Literally gold and somehow slightly humourous to me.

Dear -> rakas. From the verb rakastaa, to love. The verb is used quite sparingly so I'd say this is already quite a powerful word.

Baby -> ??? This one's very hard to translate. Beibi sounds quite corny to me but there's not a better option.

Hmmm, I'm running already out of words. I remember few more in Finnish but they are either so antiquated or plain stupid no one in their right mind would use them publicly (when sober, that is...). (Blushing...)

[Onnagumo 4]

Let's see.... In Holland, a common word used for loved ones is "schat". Literally translated, that would be "treasure" in English, something that is very dear to you, and its equivalent in English would be "dear", I think.

However, since my hubby was born on the beautiful island of Cura

[Mmikasazuma 12]

In Hungary we say"

[Zenjimoto 40]

Although in Austria there is a LOAD of such words, I am at a loss as to which ones would be most common, or even which ones I would use myself, as I realized that all my special someones who might have qualified for such words have hailed from nations that don't speak Austrian! :-O My name for Chiisabuke is, however, "Munch" (... don't ask!) (Punk rocker...)

Cheers

Zenjimoto

Edited August 12, 2003 by Zenjimoto

[Usagi 36]

Austrian, Zenjimoto? Interesting language.

very common in German (or Austrian) are:

Schatz (pronounced shats (like "shuts" not "shets")) = Treasure

Liebling = Darling, Dear

Than there are thousands of others in no paticular order:

M

[Zentoryu 154]

My friend's boyfriend calls her "stinky". :-)

If you can figure that one out, let me know.

She's certainly not stinky.

[Fujisan 533]

I call my girl "beautiful-" Its simple,effective and very true.

[ilovesumo 12]

Some east german slangs (Clapping wildly...)

[Amanogawa 79]

I so much enjoyed every post - this is truly interesting. Thank you all, for taking your time answering. (Clapping wildly...) I kind of envy you for having such sweet ways to call your sweet ones.

As reading your posts, I was thinking what would our equivalence be... we pathetically lack those loving expressions, but we may have a way of calling beloved ones to show love and closeness. And then I thought, probably, calling the person by his/her given name without honorific suffix ( -san etc. ) would be the one.

@Fujisan - I liked both of how you'd call her, and how you put this here on our forum. ( oops - I forgot that you wouldn't talk to me until the next deciding match... sorry :-P )

Edited February 4, 2004 by Amanogawa

[Takamueda 0]

Some east german slangs (Clapping wildly...)

[Kashunowaka 300]

Hmm...

Some rather common Swedish expressions: