Writer Kitten

French (Parisian preferably) endearments:

• "My kitten" -- an older (40-ish) female talking to her best friend (30-ish female) it's a nickname
• any others between the two women above
• the older woman and her friend's husband (they're really, really close friends, but not lovers)
• between husband and wife (married for 25+ years).
• boyfriend to girlfriend (he's in his early to mid 20s, she's late teens, early 20s)
• mother to child
-- mother is in her 60s-70s, daughter is in her 40s
-- mother in her 40s to (toddler age 2-4?) son/daughter
-- mother in her 40s to 20-something son
-- mother in her 40s to teenage children (son/daughters)

Irish Gaelic:

Endearments:

• Husband to wife married 25+ years
• Man (40s/50s) to best friend (woman 30s/40s)
• Man (60s/70s) to grandchildren (boys ages: 20-25. teenage, newborn/toddler and age 6-ish; girls: teenagers, newborn/toddler, and age 6-ish)
• Husband (60s/70s) to wife (60s/70s)
• Man (40s/50s) to children (boys ages: 20-25. teenage, newborn/toddler and age 6-ish; girls: teenagers, newborn/toddler, and age 6-ish)
• Man (40s/50s) to brother (40s)

I don't want to use the online translators because they're almost always wrong, and the people I usually ask are out of town. Help?

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Patrick Beverley

"My kitten" literally translates to "ma chaton", but I don't know the rest, or whether that would be used as an endearment in Paris. Oh, parents quite often call their children "mon petit/ma petite" (male/female), but that's not going to convey anything of the personal relationship there.

Writer Kitten

I was trying to stay away from the "petit/petite" simply because it doesn't work for what I'm using it for. And I'm really trying to convey the personal relationship.

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Yes, quite right. Something else would very likely be better.

Girl in Story

Mon chaton. Not ma chaton. You have to use the masculine possive, even if you're referring to a girl, because it's insulting to call someone a female cat/kitten in french. It's like calling them a female dog.

As for endearments, there's the classic, "ma/mon chere" which basically means, "my dear" and believe it or not, "ma/mon petite/petit chou" meaning "my little cabbage" is a common thing to call someone you love.