Zärtliches Wort für jemanden, den man liebt.
A loving word for someone you love.
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Gute Nacht, Liebling. — Good night, darling.
Mein Liebling hat die Karten zu Hause vergessen. — My darling forgot the tickets at home.
Reichst du mir das Salz, Liebling? — Would you pass me the salt, darling?
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testLiebling is a term of endearment and also a prefix: Lieblingsfarbe, Lieblingsbuch, Lieblingslied — favourite colour, book, song. English keeps darling and favourite apart; German runs both through one word, and the compound form is by far the commoner of the two.
As an address, Liebling is warmer and more private than English darling. No German shop assistant would use it, where a British one might — the everyday equivalents there are Schatz among couples and nothing at all between strangers.
Schatz treasure — darling
The commonest endearment in German, and used where English says love or babe.
Lieblings- favourite
The prefix. Lieblingsbuch is a favourite book, not a beloved one.
lieb dear, kind
Of a person it means kind rather than beloved: sei lieb, “be good”.
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