Question for French speakers

[Lalilou]

[LittleNanette]

daddy, papi, pap, sir?

that's what i imagine calling my daddy some day

[Frog]

"Père" sounds a little too formal to me. I called my father various things, but he wasn't the French speaker in my family. My mother's family are all native French speakers. But often I called my father "old man," so maybe vieil homme? My mother called her father "Dad" I think even before she learned English so that's an option. Why not borrow from another language? 

 

• Pop (sometimes what I called my father)/Pap (as Nanette mentioned)
• Da 
• Baba ou Bapa (plusieurs langues)
• Pai (Portugues)
• Babbo (Italian)

[Lalilou]

[shadowrider]

Not a native speaker and better at speaking to littles but thinking outside the Dad box for a moment, what about ?

 

Doudou, after all isn't a littles most precious huggable thing their daddy, kind of a living blankie or cuddly.

Mon cheri

Mon grand

Mon homme

Mon ours

 

Just a few options you might sprinkle into every day use to see how he reacts.

[Lalilou]

@Shadowrider I like "mon ours". I read in a topic someone calling her daddy "papa bear", I kind of like it too. Except mine is more of the wolf kind. So papa loup maybe. Or louloup

[Guest banana]

I call mine either Daddy or Dada, I call him more frequently Dada though ^^