| Hey there, friends of SpanishPod101.com, so we are happy to be here with you with another topic, and today’s topic is “How to call your boyfriend or your girlfriend in Spanish,” so, well I used to call her “corazón”. |
| That’s a nice one. And I used to call her “amor”, but in this video you're going to learn more ways to call your boyfriend or girlfriend so enjoy this video. |
| Okay guys, so if you want to learn more variety on how to call your girlfriend or your boyfriend, so this is the video that you should watch. As we have said at the beginning, the two most common ones in Spanish are, on the one hand “Amor” and on the other hand “Corazón”. These are the two most common that you can listen to, at least here in Mexico. |
| But what other ways do you know for calling your girlfriend or or or even your your boyfriend? |
| So we we will divide this lesson in two parts. The first one, the standard nicknames, and apart from the standard nicknames we have another part that is the cheesy nicknames if you want to be a slightly more cheesy. Yeah, we have we have some vocabulary for that. |
| We have these ones. |
| Let's let's start with the standard. So the first one is “Amor” okay, which is “love”. Only love. We have said that at the beginning. We also have “Corazon” and “Corazon” means heart. What other do we have, Efraín? |
| So in the standard vocabulary we have this word: querido or querida, which is dear, okay. |
| Yeah, very good. |
| Mi querida, ¿nos podemos ir ya? |
| Ah, you’re so romantic! Okay, very good. Okay, the next one is preciosa or in its masculine form precioso and that’s gorgeous, gorgeous. Preciosa or precioso. Like, “Preciosa, ¿nos vamos al cine?” Sí. |
| The next one, cariño. It’s darling. |
| Cariño, ¿cómo estás hoy? ¿Cómo te fue? |
| O, cariño, ¿vas a venir hoy? ¿Vas a venir a mi fiesta? No. |
| By the way, cariño, you cannot use it in masculine or feminine, we can say that this is neuter. Okay, so it's cariño for your girlfriend or cariño for your boyfriend. This is very important to note |
| I forgot to say that. |
| No, but it's okay. It's okay, so let's see another word that it's very common at least in Mexico and that's bebé. And even you can include bebé with a nice adjective like for example, bebé linda, bebé preciosa, for example, but if not, you can only say bebé and bebé is baby. Once again, this is also a neuter, is not masculine or feminine is bebé for girlfriend or boyfriend. |
| Yeah, so the next one is princesa and this is for girlfriend and if you have a boyfriend you can use príncipe. You don't say princeso, príncipe. |
| Princeso, yeah. Well, actually we do have princeso but that's for another lesson so príncipe is for your boyfriend or princesa for your girlfriend, okay. Like, Hey, ¿cómo estás, princesa? |
| Okay, so another one is cielo and I like this a lot. Cielo in English is sky and once again, this is |
| neuter, so it is for your boyfriend or your girlfriend. So like cielo, sky, remember. |
| Now, what these three words have in common: cielo and also princesa and also bebé is like you can make them in diminutive. And with diminutive you need to add –ito or –ita. |
| Exactly. So for example, and this is when you want to turn the word slightly more cheesy, okay, uh, so instead of saying, for example, cielo I can say cielito. Yeah, or for bebé, some people say bebito but the right way to say it is bebesito or bebesita. Bebesito or bebesita in the case of feminine. |
| It’s like a song like that song bebesita. |
| I haven't heard that song, like seriously, seriously. |
| Or even for example, you can say princesa. Princesa, obviously in this case is princesita right, because it's for feminine, princesita. So, if you want to turn these words slightly more cheesy, yes, of course you can say this. And these are also very common Efraín, I hear all the time in the public transportation when someone is calling to her to her girlfriend, “Hola princesita, ¿cómo va tu día?” or “Hey, cielito” |
| Even cielito has a song. |
| Cielito Lindo. |
| Ese lunar que tienes, cielito lindo. |
| Very Good. |
| So now we are going to give you the cheesy words. And these are, remember that you have to use them with diminutive. |
| Yeah, remember diminutive is –ito or –ita |
| So, the first one is cosita. |
| Like, little thing. |
| Little thing. |
| Ay, cosita, te ves hermosa. |
| Aha, yeah, very good. So then you kiss your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your boyfriend. |
| ¡Cosita! |
| Oh, by the way, cosita could work for both, actually cosita. Uh-huh. |
| Another one could be “pedacito de cielo” and I like this a lot. It sounds very cheesy but also romantic, I don't know like pedacito de cielo, which is like “part of sky” |
| Little part of the sky. |
| Little part of the sky. |
| I don't really use it in public. No, I use it more like you can use it, of course in text. No, not in public. That sounds like extremely cheesy but in text it’s good. Like “Hey, ¿cómo estás pedacito de cielo? ¿Cómo amaneciste?” |
| Oh, yeah. |
| Look, it's when you are really into someone. |
| Eexactly, when you are really into someone and you love her you love him so much you can write this of course. |
| The next one is “terroncito de azúcar”. Little sugar cube. |
| Yeah, okay. |
| Terroncito de azúcar. Mi terroncito de azúcar, ven aquí te voy a abrazar. |
| Very good. So terroncito de azúcar. This is a nice word actually. I like to use it but, once again, not in public, not in public. Just maybe in text and that's it. We have another and this is the last one that we have. The last one is panquecito or panquecita. Panquecito or panquecita. And you use this normally, normally, when your boyfriend or your girlfriend is slightly round is slightly fat. Just slightly. So you can use panquecito or panquecita which is little cupcake. Okay. |
| You can use panquecito for both. I mean for your girlfriend and your boyfriend. You don't necessarily need to add the a at the end panquecita. No, you can tell her “Mi panquecito” |
| Yeah, but you can also say panquecita, right? |
| Well, you can use both. |
| But for masculine it is always panquecito. I wouldn't call you, ¿cómo estás panquecita? Like I would never. I wouldn't even say that to you man. So no, no, no. |
| No, I don't want you to tell me like that, okay. |
| Very good. And now the last word that we want to tell you is not really how to call your girlfriend |
| But how do you say cheesy because we have used this word a lot during this video. So, what is the way in Spanish to say cheesy? The word is “cursi”. So, una vez más, estas cuatro palabras, cosita, pedacito de cielo, terroncito de azúcar y también panquecito, son palabras cursis, muy cursis. |
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