English Experts

[Samoa]

Hello!

I know that we use the words Godmother and Godfather to refer to madrinha and padrinho, but is there a short way or another way to call this relatives in English? Like in Portuguese, for example, we call them dinda and dindo.
Well that's all.
Cheers!
Samoa

[josneywat]

Well, I didn't know neither dinda nor dindo. And I'm a Portuguese native speaker. Thank you for that.

[donay mendonça]

Pessoal,

Sugestão:

Godmom
Goddaddy

Boa sorte!

[Samoa]

Thanks Donay!

I'm sure that Godmom and Goddaddy are better expressions for children.

[Samoa]

Hi Josney!
How did you use to call your padrinho and madrinha when you were child?
Maybe these are expressions that we only use in the South of Brazil.

[maryziller]

Pessoal,

Sugestão:

Godmom
Goddaddy

Boa sorte!

No, Donay because it sounds disrespectful. The office of godmother and godfather cannot be shortened like you suggest.

YOu can call your godmother by Auntie or Uncle and their first name if you are very close: Auntie Mary, Uncle Danay.

[donay mendonça]

Mary,

That´s a good piece of information.Actually,when I sugested "Godmom" and "Godddady" I hadn´t really seen these in an actual context.

All the best,

[josneywat]

Hi there

I was raised in Curitiba. Never heard dindo or dinda.... Sorry. My family either.

[Gabi]

I'm from São Paulo and I'd already heard "dinda" and "dindo" before.
But it seems to me that ,at least here, it's old-fashioned to say that.
I think it's funny this sort of differences that we've got in Brazil. Pretty cool , actualy.

[Flavia.lm]

One of my closest friends has a (cute!) godson and every time he wants something that he knows nobody will give him, he just pretends he's the poorest child in the world and say "diiiiinda, would you give me that?"