yeah the pet names are the bomb. they can get cringey but that happens in every language.
it’s also one of the things I miss in English. Just those diminutives. With the soft ‘ch’
Bärchen, Schätzchen, Liebchen, Mäuschen… v cute
what I also miss. Really fucking miss is a good word in English for Kraulen.
Kraulen is basically what you do to a cat, but not rubbing your flat palm along her head/back, but just moving your fingertips across her scalp in kind of a scritching/massaging motion.
scritching comes kinda close but it’s not perfect.
Kraulen is where it’s fucking at, ya’ll.