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in reply to a message by Chrisell
Hi Chrisell,
-chen is a diminutive ending in German and it works for girls (Gretchen, Lieschen, Lenchen) and boys (Hänschen, Kläuschen), but the name Jochen does not belong to that group. Here, the -chen-ending sounds different. It's just a short form of Joachim.
By the way - Mädchen isn't used as a given name in Germany at all. It's just a vocabulary word for "girl".
/ Satu
http://www.nordicnames.de/
-chen is a diminutive ending in German and it works for girls (Gretchen, Lieschen, Lenchen) and boys (Hänschen, Kläuschen), but the name Jochen does not belong to that group. Here, the -chen-ending sounds different. It's just a short form of Joachim.
By the way - Mädchen isn't used as a given name in Germany at all. It's just a vocabulary word for "girl".
/ Satu
http://www.nordicnames.de/
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