Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 244.. The noun phrase today is term of endearment.
Okay. If somebody wants a screenshot, do it right now. Let's get right to it. A term of endearment
is a word , phrase or nickname. Often used to show affection for someone. That you like someone or
affection for someone. The plural would be terms of endearment. So don't say you know,
term of endearments. You say terms of endearment for the plural. All right. Let's continue. Some
very common examples are honey , honey bun, babe, baby, darling. So you can just imagine if you
have a boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband and they use these with you. If they call you honey,
actually honey's a very common one. We hear that in the movies all the time. If they call you honey
or honey bun or babe , baby is that okay ? Your husband or boyfriend they call you baby or sugar
you know, do you like it ? Or do you not like it ? Or will you be like hey don't call me sugar. Call
me something else. Would you be like that ? Let me know. But anyway, let's continue here. Sweetheart,
sweetie, sugar, dear , my dear, sweetie pie. Yeah. We use a lot of food. A lot of sweet food,
buttercup , cupcake, honey bear, gorgeous. Okay. Even though, I think a guy might use that more.
Well for for his girlfriend. I don't know that's another one you could ask.
Would you like that or not like that ? If you're a girl is his girlfriend or you're
a wife do you want your husband to call you gorgeous or not ? I don't know, muffin,
pumpkin, doll. Well a guy would probably call it the woman doll. Hubby well of course the wife
calls the man hubby. Wifey you know, if they're married etc. So these are just... these are some
of the most common ones in American English. Now I underlined three here I underlined sweetheart,
sweetie and dear because these are sometimes terms of endearment that older people use,
especially older women. You often hear older women even talk to a younger woman they might call them.
Sweetheart , sweetie. Can you do this for me ? Sweetheart. Maybe even somebody they don't know,
but it's a term of endearment. They mean it in a very nice way.
All right. Let's continue. Some non-romantic terms of endearment include like dude,
bud, buddy or Australian ones often use the word mate. They will use the word mate to mean
like a friend. Yeah. I remember this because I often went travel and I met Australians.
Australians are very very friendly people and very quickly they may call you a mate. And they
and you kind of like it because they were kind of referring to as a friend already. But
as an American it's also strange because we don't say mate in, in (American )English
to mean friend and mate in (American ) English sounds more like somebody that you
are romantically inclined with. You know, your mates like if you're a guy you know the mate
is that you're the girl that you're dating. You know or you know somebody that you have children
with or something. So it sounds a little weird when Americans first hear it. But you know you
quickly adopt to it and, and you realize that you know Australians mean it in a very nice way.
That means that they're friendly with you and you know, they kind of informally kind of like you
right away. So, so it's a good term of endearment that Australians use. All right. Let's continue.
I mentioned just a few, a few other countries some terms of endearment. The British say darling
just like Americans or dear. They say the British also say duck , but used by the older generation.
This sounds a little weird to an American but that's that's what I've heard. That's what I've
researched and found. French yeah. Sometimes you hear this in movies. You know mon cheri.
Yes . I know I often heard that remember the old" Adam's Family" the old one that used to be
uh the black-and-white TV series. He always used to say that to.... to his wife. ma cherie, or
Mon tresor like my treasure. I don't know again. If you're a woman do you ... would you , would
you want your husband or boyfriend to call you their treasure. That's basically what it
means. German has liebling. That's a common one. I think they say liebling. I guess it's supposed
to mean favorite, but I've often associated also with darling. It's kind of similar to the
idea of darling. Italian of course, amore mio you know, my love. So amore is love. Mio means mine.
Caro and cara they both mean dear. So it's just the Italian way of saying dear. The 'o' would be
used for a guy and the one with the 'a' ending would be used for a woman. Remember in a lot of
the romance languages they often have different male and female uses. So "o" would be for
masculine "a" would be for feminine. Let's continue. Japanese have 'anata'. I guess it means
you, but it's meant you know again as a term of endearment. A nice way. Chinese , sometimes they
especially in families they might use xiao and da which actually means small and big. So it's very
common that they will say you know like a younger sister or smaller sister or big brother. You know
da ga or something like that. But , but it's meant as a term of endearment. It's meant in a nice way.
Spanish they have carito you know like my little dear. Amor also meaning love.
Corazon is heart. All right. So I don't know maybe they call you corazon or mi corazon.
I don't know. Something like that again You know, would you like this ? All right, And I just gave
like six examples of the way you may hear this used. So you might hear. Yeah. This could be
boyfriend, girlfriend , husband, wife. You know , honey can you pass me a tissue ? Yeah. Very
common hear that all the time. Sweetheart. Can you pick me up some milk on the way home ? Something
like that. This is very very common that you, you might hear these. Hubby well of course.
This would be the wife. Hubby. Come over. Come over here. I want to introduce you to my friend.
Something like that. Now this was the one like I said like a lot of old women in the US
sometimes do this. I guess an old guy could do it too if you say Dear, can you pass me some
salt ? Maybe they're sitting at a table you know. Again an old woman may call anybody dear. A guy,
girl it doesn't matter, but it's it's a term of endearment. It's a nice way of course this
would be very informal. Hey dude. What's up ? You know calling to dude like kind of like friend or
you know kind of like you know, guy friend. Whatever dude and then of course the Australians
will say you know hey mate. Hey mate what's up ? You know something like that. So okay. Anyway
I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. I hope it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.